The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Luka Makes Lakers Debut, Bregman Down To 3 Finalists, Future Of AFC After Chiefs Loss

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" recap Luka Doncic scoring 14 points in his debut with the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers defeated the Utah Jazz 132-113 Monday. Matt and Ross also:discuss the future of the AFC following the Kansas City Chiefs' loss in Super Bowl LIXreview the latest update in Alex Bregman's free agencyreact to the Saints hiring Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore as their new head coachrecap the latest headlines in "Ross' NFL Rewind"give their "Gut Feelings" and more.

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10.1 in H-town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. To my right, it's Ross, Villarreal. Our producer is Connor D. McGovern.

I'm Matt, and we are very happy to have you with us today. Y'all be careful out there. I mean, it's breezy. We got a good old-fashioned cold front coming in. rain pretty much the entire trip in from South Nacadoches. You know, just wasn't a great run. You made it. I did.

You didn't have to change any of your wagon wheels, did you? No. That's good. No, but we did open up a campfire about halfway. Uh-huh. Or on Laura Coppian in 59. Had some roasted rabbit. Is that what they did?

Yeah. Felicia Moon was like, what's up, guy? I'm like, no, Felicia. That's been a long time ago. What percent of the audience got that one? I don't know, but if you did, it was Radio Gold. Yeah, it was radio gold. Hope you guys are in a good mood.

And ladies, despite the nasty weather. And look, we're your best friends on days like this. Nothing severe, but just going to be steady all day long. So that's what we are, steady all day long. Nothing severe. Oh, I like that. That sounds like your second album. Really?

Steady all day long, the Matt Thomas. And then I will run out of songs. So the third album would be the greatest hits. Sometimes you've got to go with the greatest hits. Get you a little cash. Well, you just basically just, like, I don't mean to be. bring up Barryman a little here, but Barry has like nine greatest hits albums, and they're all just the

same songs in different order. That's how it works. All right, today on the radio program, we have an 1130 edition of gut feelings. I have thought of one this morning involving next NFL season about the two teams that we're going to see on Super Sunday. I don't know if I'm... Or did see on Super Sunday.

Did see on Super Sunday. I don't know if I'm ready to announce who they are, but I have... Oh, you're going to? Who I'm going to see? Next year. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. I misunderstood you. That's okay. It's a super, super, super early, please let it be just a gut feeling kind of feeling. The Houston Texans in the Super Bowl.

I love where you're going, Matt. I love this energy from you. I have terrible news for you. From Liberty White, Matt. Let's go. It could be because when I tell you what I think my prediction is going to be, the Texans would be in this particular category. Just throwing that out there. Okay. All right. That's at 1130. We have the news

at noon. We had 1230. Today we have Ross's NFL rewind. Yes. And then we're going to take a week off of that because next Tuesday we're going to be down in Florida talking with the local nine. About the local nine. Wonderful. So looking forward to three days of spring training

coverage down in West Palm Beach, late middle of next week. Matter of fact, one week from today. And then we've got, believe it or not today at 150. But remember, this program, unlike other shows in town, like to hear their voices and just think all their hot takes are amazing. We like to listen to you the people. We normally

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713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. So Dana Brown, I didn't mean to rhyme on this, but damn it, Dana Brown ain't messing around. Oh, okay. That's his sophomore album, ain't messing around. Ain't messing around. His first album was, you really want me to sign Josh Hader? On that album, there is, are we really bringing back Justin?

Verlander? Can we keep these prospects? How about this one? One of the songs. One of the songs is, You Stay. Oh. You know what I mean? Okay. How about one of these? This is one of the songs, back of the baseball card. Oh. Yeah.

Another one of the songs on this new album, we've had some internal discussions. Oh, no, this is called internal discussions. Yeah, internal discussions. I like that. Okay. And I think of me as one of the song, Reach Out and Text, Scott Boris, eventually. Really? He's producing that album. Scout's eye, I think it's one of his big hits. I think it's what it is. Back of the baseball card. That was one of those one hit wonders that got really popular for a while and then like disco, people wanted to trash this song.

Everyone hates it. Yeah. So they did make a move today signing a player that I'm not only not familiar with. And I'll be brutally honest with you. I don't follow the other 29 teams religiously like I follow the Astros. but they have signed veteran infielder Luis Guilla oh boy G U I L-L-O-R-M-E

Gillorme Giorame Giorame Seven years in the big leagues Mostly with the Mets He's a lefty bat He provides some infield depth Lefty bat

I'm telling you everybody Whether Bregman or not Is coming to Houston Which it sounds like it's going to be like There's a zero percent chance they're moving an Altova out to left field. May not be on a full-time basis, but they are bringing in infielder's left and right

to try to take that second base spot. I agree. Altuva to left is happening at some point for some amount of games. I don't know. No, we could set it over-under. We'll do it next week. Yeah, we'll do it down there. Like, I don't know if Jose is to join us,

if he goes, man, I'm so excited. I'm so fired up. I've spent my entire left on the right side of the infield, but now I'm going to try this left-field bit. I don't know how he feels about it. I have a question for you. What's the easiest in the field position? Is it left field?

Outfield or easiest? In the field, not catcher. The least activity would be probably because we talk about the nuances of first base and how difficult that can be. Yeah, the easy answer maybe five or ten years ago would have been first base. That's where you put the fat guys with a beer.

bellies and they just have to cover ground. But now it's, there's so much more to the sport that you want to elite play at first base. And you're shifting. And also, ultimately, the a a aster's have had, I mean, when you had Jeff Beck, where you had a fantastic defensive first baseman. You know, not, you know, so this franchise knows how important the defense is on that right side of the infield. Um, and your Gileer was very good for a long period of time, too.

I mean, don't forget about that. He really got, he really inherited the position playing primarily third of most of his professional career, came over to first base and really did a nice job. I mean, honestly, Ross, they're all important to me, but if you're going to really go with the least important, probably left field, because again, you center field, you have to cover the most territory. Right field, you want your strongest arm, especially because you got a lot of guys that want to run first to third. You have a lot of left-handed batters in major league baseball now. Okay, left field's the answer. That's what I'm saying. Al-Tube is going to be all right.

and it's left field at minute minute i'm sorry dyken park first of all it's left field at dyken park he'll be able to work the wall and be able to figure it out he's a smart guy and ultimately the territory that you're worried about that left center field sneaky snake jake's going to be out there jake myers got it now let me ask you this if jake mires didn't have the type of ground that he make that he can cover patrol would the asteros have been so quick to think about this my guess is probably still yes i would say it just is a huge benefit of it's a huge benefit of that he can cover that Jake Myers covers as much center, left center field than probably any other center

field that does a major league baseball. I would say yes and then also you have other left field backup plans. I mean, look, Yon-Alvarez is adequate, but by no means, are you going, oh, now the Astros of a minus defensive category because Yoran Alvarez is not in the left field.

He's got a good arm, but he doesn't necessarily track a lot of balls. He doesn't make the catch against the wall. He makes the routine stuff. He doesn't embarrass himself out there, and I think probably that's the exact same thing the thing about Jose Altova. And any time he's running down a ball, you're just going, please don't get hurt, please don't get hurt, please don't get hurt, please don't get hurt.

You know, I know that Yordon likes to play in the outfield. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't think the organization likes it, and I think he needs to be out in the left field probably less than 40 times in the 2020-25 season. Yeah, we're going to put him out there for 40. You'll see some Al-Tuve, you'll see some DeZenzo, Dubon. Dubon.

A mixer, I mean, maybe Jacob Melton mixes in the second-hous-year. Or if you make a trade at some point during the year, far right filter, you can move Chas back over to left field. Who knows? So, point being is this. It is just going to absolutely happen. And I wonder how that conversation went. Do you go to somebody?

I mean, look, let's be real. It happens all the time in all industries. We'll use radio, for an example. Let's say you've been working morning drive. And when you work morning drive of a radio station, whether that be an FM station, whether that be a sports station, whether it be a rock, whatever the case would be, you got to come out of the gates at 5.30, 6 o'clock in the morning like you are on fire. I mean, you have to build the energy because your energy translates to the radio. Well, if you've been doing it for 15, 20 years, getting up at 4 o'clock in a morning, and being here in the office at 6 or 5.30 ready to rev up, it's a difficult challenge. So you'll see sometimes a lot of morning shows guys will go to the other day parts because, again, it just depends.

They want to put somebody in that spot that has the energy that can fire up. Everybody get going at 6 o'clock in a morning. It happens all the time. You may have a manager who is your chief financial officer who is, you know, 59 years old and he wants to cut back in his life. Now he becomes just a staff accountant. I mean, it happens all the time. So this is not a conversation that would be foreign to a guy like Jose El Tuvay. But it does take somebody to realize that you do need to make an adjustment to maintain your importance.

Doesn't mean Jose is not important. Doesn't mean he doesn't need to play six days a week. Doesn't mean that anybody's trying to knock him out of the leadoff position. He has his spot etched in stone as the greatest astro of all time. But just because you say all those things and say, Jose, you've got value, it takes some adjustment. Case in point just last year. Ryan Presley, we love you. We think you're really, really good.

We think you're a back end of the bullpen guy. We're going to move you from the ninth and eighth inning because we are able to get this other guy in here who is a premier closer. Some guys adjust to it just fine. Craig Beggio certainly did or at least tried. Ryan Presley did not. What's going to happen with Jose when he realizes, and I think he has by now,

that his best worth on this team is not playing in a position where you need a great arm, you need the ability to cover a lot of ground, and you need to have the better metrics at that very important right side of the infield spot. Be able to turn the double play, make grabs, I mean, it's just a more challenging position than playing left field.

I think he knows it. I think he knows it, and I think he's going to be more of a team player than Ryan Presley is. He has less of an ego than Ryan Presley does. Amazingly. Knowing Jose, like I know him, he's got this.

He's not going to come in bitter. He's not going to not want to speak to the meat. media for four or five days or Bimonis or have to think about what he has to say to make it sound like he's all in. I think Joseo Tuvius like, I'll do whatever it takes. Now, I think ultimately he did this because he wanted to keep

Alex Bregman as an astro. And then once the idea was floated among the organization, like, you know what, whether we get pregnant or not, you're going out to left field. Yes. 1013. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross 713-213-2-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you want to follow us on Twitter. You may do that as well. It's at SportsMT, at SportsRB, and at Connor

D. McGovern. I have today's quiz question up on the pre-show tweet. We'll get to that as well. Gut feelings, news at noon, NFL rewind, believe it or not, a lot to get to. And Luke Donchich made his debut as a Los Angeles Laker and a weird thing that a TV network did to publicize and put the game on. We'll discuss that next. 1014, Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show. with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Kevin and Coach in studio, we want to give you this important navigation. If you want to catch the finish of Baylor and Houston, we invite you to head to ESPNU.

Here on ESPN Coach, it is the Laker debut of Luca Donchich. What are you interested to see? Two of the toughest matches in all of college basketball, playing together, trying to coexist and find a way to take the Lakers back to the level that they expect to be at competing for championship. chips. That's what I expect to see, and that's the big question moving forward. Jazz and Lakers, Dave Pash, Tim Legler on the coal. James hasn't taken a shot yet. Don Chich has attempted one. On the switch, Luca's got the big on him. Tries the three.

That's it. The first of many. 14 for Luca last night. By the way, I've always talked about how this song is overrated. It was really good at the concert. I'm just going to tell you that right now. That's fine. still a really good song. Yeah, you're such a fraud. No, I'm just saying that.

I'm just trying to go off the beaten track, and I get it. No, it's the cliche. The cliche thing to do is to say, oh, it's a great song. It's not the greatest song ever. I know, but sometimes things are cliche because they're true, Matt. No, no, not all. You're just trying to be contrarian. You know, I respect that.

Lion Eyes is the greatest single song of all time. Follow my new kid in town. Let's move on. Terrible. Okay, so television programming, you have to play the hits. You got to play what people want. and clearly Luca's debut was a huge, huge bit.

I mean, the entire arena had 77 jerseys. LeBron wore the warm-up 77. Luca got announced last with a PA announced. That's usually when you have your biggest star, you announce him last. Wow. He got announced after LeBron, who was announced fourth out of the five starting lineups, ESPN carried it.

Well, at least he was ahead of or behind Rui Hachamura. was the very first guy named. That sounds about right. It was Jackson Hayes of University of Texas fame. Longhorn legend. Was third. And who's the other player? I'm I forgetting it.

Oh, Austin Reeves. Yeah. So there's your starting five. How do I know the Lakers? Ugh. What do you mean? You know ball, Matt. I know.

I'm going to say the Lakers two more times for the end of the year. Both in Los Angeles. You should come to one of those trips. It's good times. I don't think about it. All right. You got my flight?

No. So here is the bit. When a game goes long, they say, hey, we're going to start the other game on the other channel and then bring you the game after this one back on this channel. Yes. Last night, I'm not saying it's never happened before, but it's very rare.

The Cougars game with Baylor started at 8 o'clock. The Utah Lakers game was going to start at 940. 9.30 means 9.40. Anytime there's a game that starts at 7, it's really 7.10.30 starting 40. That's how they do the timing in the NBA. ESPN knew this. The Lakers do this. Baylor and Houston knew this.

So at about 932, give or take, as I was watching the game at home last night, they said, hey, if you want to finish watching Baylor, Houston, and Houston was up anywhere between 7 and 11 points, really, the entire game. Go over to ESPNU and knock that bad boy out. You can watch it. Usually you let that game finish out, and then you put the other game on, which is right after. in this case. And I don't blame

ESPN for doing it. It was just a weird television programming move to make that happen. And the Duke was the North Carolina versus Clemson before Baylor Houston. So they couldn't push the game up earlier. To get the whole Baylor Houston on games. I'm like,

you know what? Bader Houston? I mean, y'all are great, big 12 teams, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I got a chance to put Luke on. Luke is getting out at 935 and so they did that. It was just a weird situation. It's unfortunate. It was not really unfortunate. But I was unfortunate for those people that don't be ESPNU. If you're in a hotel, let's say

you're in a hotel. Yeah. And you're a huge Houston fan and you're living in Denver. Or you're in a hotel in Denver and your TV doesn't have ESPNU in your hotel. You're SOL. Unless you get on your phone. Life ain't fair. Sorry, Cooke's. I know. I know. Gotta put the don'tcha John. It's all about money. But again, I'm not

the lowest hanging fruit would be of Cougar. I don't even know Cougar fans are mad, but I'm not mad at the decision. You have to you got to play what's right. And so it was just weird that that it was the reverse. They said, go to do the other channel that finished the game. And so we did. And the Cougars won.

That's what's the most important. That is the most important thing. And look at play last night. And the crowd loved it. And they won. And now that you've got Anthony Davis hurt and the other the real center for the Mavericks, Daniel Gaffer, got hurt yesterday in the game against the Kings.

Everybody in LA is just flipping the F out. Not L.A. Dallas. They're flipping out. Like we've just we used to have a great score. Now we have a good rebounder and a good defender who's hurt and we have a good center and a good rebounder and a good defender who's hurt we're scared so you can check dallas off the column poor dallas fan i know that's a shame they were they had a little you know what and vinegar in them over the weekend i was there to see it firsthand as they should have yeah and now look it didn't play a full game because he's just coming back from injury 14 points i don't know how many minutes did

he play i think the goal was to play about 30 i don't know what the final number was on that but i don't know you get gassed yeah i mean it is what it is. A little out of shape is what you're saying. And by the way, you got to, well, no, I didn't, I didn't think he was particularly doughy. Okay. How was it the dough level? It wasn't Pillsbury level?

By the way, if you're young, you're doy. If you're older, either A, have a dad bot or B, you're fat. One of the other, right? You're more blob-like when you get older, rather than doughy. I think it's doy as a kid and a young adult, and it's flabby as an adult. Yeah, that's probably correct. Look at Donchage, yeah, 14.24 minutes. Yeah, it was about right.

But, I mean, they were destroying the jazz. Yeah, why would you want to invest anything more than what you did in him against the Sucky Utah Jazz? LeBron James, 24 points, eight assists, seven rebounds, seven turnovers. So they were able to play with each other on the same floor then, basically, right? Yeah, I think all these people are like, yeah. Absolutely ridiculous. And with that, the Lakers and the Rockets are tied for the fourth spot in the Western Conference. Now, I think the Lakers have played two more games.

But the Rockets have the head-to-head. Yes. So once they even up on a number of games, then we'll be able to figure out what's going on. Well, we'll see. They have to beat them. I mean, eventually, right? Was it, were they up 2-0?

Rockets are 1-0. 1-0, I'm sorry. So, yeah, they're still going to have to win to secure the time. Right. And the last two games against the Lakers are in Los Angeles. I was so confident. They were going to finish top four, like two weeks ago. Well, you've got Phoenix tomorrow,

who's playing in Memphis tonight on a tough back-to-back. And you got Golden State coming in who, frankly, just beats the crap out of his most times, except for this past year. Is he probably probably probably playing for them yet? Yeah, he's already played. All these teams making these moves. And the Rock has going to have Fred Van Vleet and probably not going to have Alperin Schengun. Okay, I'm recalibrating my expectations again.

Don't know. No, no. You can't recalibrate. We don't recalibur in this show. Top six. Let's just get top six. I mean, I'll take it. I don't want to play it. I really don't. Because, I mean, you go from two to the play. playing. I mean, it's not unheard of. How about this? I'd rather finish six than four. Are you presuming that Denver gets the two spot in the west?

Yes. That they're going to jump over everybody? Or Memphis. I mean, yeah, or Memphis. Either one of them, but Denver's won seven in a row. Okay, here's how it's going to end up. Probably. Oklahoma City won, Denver two. There'll be a massive scramble for three. Rockets. I hope so.

Just get me out of Oklahoma City as far as possible. Not that I don't appreciate the city, but that team just beats everybody to a pulp. Yeah, I'd like to avoid the thunder until the finals, Western finals. There you go. So you're saying there's a chance. I like it. I like it a lot. 1028, Sports Talk, 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross on this wet Tuesday. Come on in and say hello to us if you'd like. We won't bite unless you want it to. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. My poll question today is Ross, after watching the Chiefs, on Sunday. Are we more optimistic about the Texans next year winning the

AFC? Less or no opinion. We'll give you the early results on that. Plus, coming up, The Athletic said that a certain halftime act was the fourth best halftime act since 1991. Wow.

You know, it already has more YouTube views than ushers from last year. It's got 32 million YouTube views in one day. I believe Drake, looked at that eight million times by himself. Yeah, the eight million of those make me Drake, but... Yeah, that's true. I think two of them are me.

That's okay. I mean, I had to go back and watch and, you know, pick up on all the... Nuances. Yeah, absolutely. They call you Mr. Nuisance. Thank you. 1029, Sports Talk, 790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. I'm very happy that Love Volleyball is doing so well.

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Check them out later this month at L-O-VB.com. All right, we have an Alex Breggman update coming up in 15 minutes. You ready for that? And I mean, I'm just grasping its draws at this point, but there is something a little bit

more than just the he hasn't signed with the aster's today. Don't tell the man, you're supposed to sell it. 15 minutes from now. You're supposed to sell a big update, A huge update. I sound like an authoritative news reporter.

I like that. Coming up at 11. The Alex Spragman update. That really is not much of an update, but I'll give it to you anyway. You're not selling it still. Oh, excuse me, let's go. Alex Brugman still is not assigned yet. That's the update.

Kovett up in 15 minutes. You just, what? You gave it away the whole update? Dang it. All right. No more. I just want to sound like my news voice the rest of the time. Okay.

Okay, so let me get to the quiz question today, which, by the way, will be daily on the, sports empty Twitter handle if you want to follow me there. And that's at SportsMT. The question today is Texans winning AFC

after watching KC. More confident, less confident, no opinion. Now again, I'm going to skew heavily towards Houston sports and the glasses half full as compared to glasses half empty. So far, 51%

of those that voted believe that there you are more confident in the Texans winning the AFC after watching them play. 17% are less confident and 32% have zero opinion meaning they didn't change your opinion one way or the other. I got you. I would put myself in that particular category.

I did not watch the Super Bowl. By the way, 156 million people watched the game. Fox says it was his most watched game ever. Yeah, I think they're adding up. Everybody's getting most watch this and that and it's because they're adding in streaming numbers now. For sure, and they should.

And you're getting Tubi Tube and Fox. I feel like too. Adding it all up. When you say Tubeb, I feel like you're talking about one of those Telitubby kids.

I don't remember their names. I don't either, but I thought, I would have, if you would have said, who's Tooby, I would have, my first guess would have been,

he was one of the Telitubbies. Teletubbies, dipsy, Sunbaby, and Toobby. Tinky Winky. And? Lala?

Yeah, I remember Lala. Stop. And then Toobie. And then Toobie. The fifth one. Yes. Okay. So as I watched the game,

I didn't, now I will say this. I said, The only thing I did think about when it came to putting the Texans into context on this is if Philadelphia's defensive line plays the Texans, offensive line, C.J. Stroud does not finish the game.

I mean, he's got a capability too, but Pat Mahomes was, he's as a magician when it comes to that. That's the only thing I thought about. I did not think about, oh, Kansas City is now vulnerable. Kansas City is in a position where they're going to need a new running back and that they're going to, they don't get there. actually. They actually do need a

running back. They have the, and Travis Kelsey probably should retire. I'm going to assume he's making an insane amount of cash. Yeah, I can,

I'll look up his deal for it. That cap hit thing probably would, for a guy that is, I mean, he was targeted, what, three or four times

in the game on Sunday, I don't know what it was, but somewhere on there. That's what he's been based. I mean, he went from the unstoppable force to just a pedestrian.

He went to, he went from, an all-time great tight-in like Tony Gonzalez to Dalton Schultz overnight. Just a guy. He, yeah, one more year on his deal. He signed a two-year $34 million deal last year. Now, let me ask you this. If you're the Chiefs, do you cut him after all the things he has done for your franchise?

Or do you say this is the fond farewell? Or do you do a little bit of both? You say, hey, we want to bring you back, but let's renegotiate your final year. about to cut your ass, you better retire. So what's he on the books for for his salary? What would be his salary if he played next? I'll forget about the cap hit. Okay, well, cap hit is what's actually most important because he got all this guaranteed

money up front. He would, his cap hit is $19.8 million. Because he got the two-year, $34 million deal on most of it up front. He is slightly better than Brevin Jordan at this point. Oh, no, I'm not going to go there. I'm not going to go there. Is he better than Dalton Shulton? right now. Yes. Slightly.

Yes. Now we're 20 million bucks. No, not worth a $20 million cap hit, but I don't even know if you could save anything. Is this true? Is it a $17 million cap savings if they cut them? I think I've seen it somewhere in Twitter that there's a significant number in that range. But do you do that with one of your five greatest players ever to play for your football team? Right? I mean, I don't know the Chief's History, but I would presume that Travis is the

is the, well, the five best. It's probably up there. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if we were we put Lynn Dawson and the boys. Well, I mean, he would be their best quarterback right now over Mahomes. But it won't take long for Pat to the super senior. Actually, that's not true. He's been to five Super Bowls.

I can't. No, my home is better than Dawson. But it was Dawson for a long time. Yeah. But Dawson smokes sigs on the sideline, so that gets some points. You get serious points for that. If he was rolling, if he had a bong, I had to really get him, put him over the top. But he had a heater that was fine.

I don't know, Ross, football is tough, sports is business, but to tell your greatest, one of your five greatest players of all time, and certainly one of your two or three greatest offensive weapons. Is he even their greatest tight end of all time? I would take Kelsey Ever Gonzalez. Ooh. I mean, it's 51.49. It is.

It is. But the problem is, didn't, did Kelsey played as in, entire career with the Chiefs, right? Yes. Gonzalez was Atlanta Falcon for a long time, too, is it not? That's true. So I think being the home-grown, never-leaving guy does get some weight pull to his advantage. Are you really?

It's close, though, like you said. It's super close. I'm taking Tony. Okay. I don't know if you do that. I don't know if you can pull that off without some sort of understanding to say, hey, can we try to at least renegotiate? or maybe he didn't mean i just i can't imagine any athlete that is one like if you were in his position

you have one year left in your contract you are not playing for a new deal you have done everything humanly possible you have been to five super bowls you are the greatest past catcher tied in in your position right now in the league today or at least was until this past year why wouldn't you want to play just one more year yeah 17 million if he retires or they cut him unless he just said I'm pooped but Ross there's 17 million reasons why he would try to come back in. They should but are they going to do it?

Yeah, I'm not to I don't know. You know how they do things with the NFL they give all the bunch of bonus money up front. Right. Oh, he's not hurting but money is still there. And look at Justin Verliner. Probably should have retired last year.

He wouldn't kick the tires and the San Francisco Giants are going to pay him $15 million to probably throw, I don't know, earnings maybe. Well, he's a, they paid him to go over that. I don't know if he's going to. You need my point. They should cut Kelsey.

They should. You know what? You go on that Kansas station all the time. Why don't you get them a little bit of a phone call today? Go tell Kansas. Go tell Chief's Kingdom. It should be Chiefs' chiefdom. By the way, I forgot to ask you about this.

You know, they had, was it John Hamm did the announcements of the Chiefs? Yes. And then it was Bradley Cooper that did the Eagles chant. And this is a gods on a serious question. Is Beyonce doing the Texans one that they ever get there? Yeah. Either that or the squirly guy from Big Bang Theory. You don't need the biggest celebrity, but you need a big celebrity.

And those two guys are big celebrities. What's Dennis Quaid up to? He's like 75. There's no chance he's doing that. Plus, they don't even live here. You know what? I know who can do it. Cowell McNair.

What? Yeah, you have Cal do it. That's his team. No. I bet you it'll be Cal and Hannah. No chance. Do you doubt me? I'm going, I'm telling you it's Beyonce.

Well, she doesn't want to do it. Then we got to think of a plan B. She's a bigger star and Bradley Cooper. That's true, but Bradley Cooper's a big star. I know. I mean, I'm messing up to be the biggest star, but you need a big star. Yeah. Who's the biggest star?

Let's throw out there. 7-13. If you cut the check, she'll be there. Oh, I know she will. Netflix has cut the check. Netflix got the check. Kamala Harris got the check. Kamala Harris got the check. She's all good. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-2-2-790. We take this program until 2 o'clock today. We've got gut feelings coming up in about to 45 minutes here on 7-90 with a word for the Shell Federal Credit Union. I need to tell you that you can save significant money on an auto loan from the Shell FCU. In fact, I'm going to their brand new ribbon-cutting ceremony today at their location up in Cyprus. So if you're going to be in that Cyprus area today, but at 4 o'clock, you can come by and say. Hello. More importantly, stop by one of those locations all around town and get yourself a nice low auto loan rate at 3.99% for up to 36 months, plus $250 in cash back, plus two skip a pace, plus the opportunity for deferred payments.

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Bregman Update on the Matt Thomas show. I mean, I've heard worse. Bregman Update. Where is he now going to go? Bregman update. Why is it taking you so long to decide? That isn't rhyme, does it? No. By the way, Ben Verlander just can't stop tweeting.

Why don't you mute him? I need to. Do you follow him? No, it's on the for you tab. Oh, see, you love Ben Verlander. They know. Watch this. Here it is. They know you love Benny. Benny V. Ben Gravy trains off of his brother, Shohayotani, and now Alex Bregman.

See, I tweeted. I put in this search, Bregman, and I want to get the latest stuff. Okay. So the latest stuff is this. According to MLB Network, uh, it's down to three teams, which is not a super big news item, but eliminates one.

Okay. The three teams that Alex Breggman supposedly is likely to sign with are, either the Tigers, the Red Sox, or the Cubs. Really? No Astro mention. So,

I mean, here's the reality. The Cubs. It's a very winnable division. Red Sox? You have the Yankees and who else? Anybody in that division that scares you overly? Tampa, no. Toronto, no.

Baltimore? Baltimore, yes. Detroit? Winnable division. Went to the division series last year. Minnesota? They're shaving payroll. White socks suck.

Guardians, going to be always mid. Kansas City? Maybe, you know, that's a team that could be. scary. If all the three deals are the same, I mean, I don't know if, I don't think location matters. I think it's about what team matters. If I was pregnant, I would go with the Tigers because of the fact that I know AJ Hinch. I got Tarek scuba pitching for me every fifth day. I mean, they had a young lineup that overachieve last year. Now, the only negative about them is the Cubs spend money in future free agency. The Red Sox are going to spend money. The Tigers don't have a tremendous history

with exception of signing Miguel Cabrera, that outrageous contract many moons ago. They don't spend super big money. So does that impact where he wants to go based off of future spending, not the spending that they're going to spend on him right now? It seems like that would be a concern of his. I'd be concerned about it. He's going to sign he wants, he wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants the deal that he wants and he wants to be somewhere where he's going to be basically a contender as well. And I think all three those would be contending teams. In some sort. Now, are they...

I mean, like long term. Like when... Right, right. Right. Right. In five years are the Tigers contending. Like you said, they don't spend a lot of money. Of the three teams, the one that has the longest track record of being a contenders, the Red Sox. Yes. But also, the reports have all been that he doesn't, they don't want to sign him more than four years. And the Cubs were a deal that didn't want to give a super long contract either. But it is interesting. The only thing I saw out of that tidbit this morning that I thought was not necessarily super interesting, but just super telling

was the Astros were not in that mix of this initial. I think Buster only was the one that reported this. Okay. And you know, Buster doesn't like the Astros, so, you know, that goes in part of it. He's Astro Hater. You're not a big fan. What you're saying. All these big writers, there's Astros haters. All these national reporters,

they just hate the Astros. Well, I'll tell you this. He brings up 2017 as much as anybody. Passing's kind of guy, I'll give passing credit for this. Passing doesn't bring it up very much. Nightingale doesn't. Kirkson rarely. Buster brings up 2017 quite a bit.

I haven't heard him bring it up a while. That's because you're not chasing him after him. It's true. He's lost to me at dinner with Buster only. Never. Let's go have dinner with him in West Palm if he's down there. Now he was I remember one of the World Series He had like a deconstructed

hot dog. He got like a plate full of chili. Then he put a hot dog on it and then he got a grabbed a bun. And? That's not weird to you? It all goes down the same path. You're ridiculous.

I was being nice. You think it's normal to get a plate full of chili, put a dog on it, and grab a bun on the side? That's weird. Plate full of chili. Oh, stop. Let's go to the bowl. You're so ridiculous. Bowl of chili.

Yes. Get the hot dog. Yeah. Cut it up. Put it in there. Yeah, he's not six years old. Get a dog. get a bun, put a dog on it, put some chili on it.

I don't have a plate full of chili like a weirdo. You think that's, I mean, I'm really surprised. Is there something you do? No, but I'm not, I'm not mad at them. So if you saw me at the in line and I got a plate and I put chili all over it, just slap the dog on there and then got a bun on the side, you wouldn't say anything? You 100% would. Stop.

Look at you in your face. Look at you in your face. I would say that's peculiar, but I don't know. I would say, what are you six? Now, I was much more bothered by years ago we were covering a playoff series, and the Astros were given us free hot dogs as part of their medium meal. And they were in large amounts of people putting mayonnaise on the hot dog. I was way more bothered by that than what you just described.

What I just described is way out of 100 people, there are more people putting mayonnaise on their dog than making a plate full of chili with a deconstructed dog. Come on. That's probably true. I know it's true You know what? I am triggered by a lot of things at life, this is not one of them

Okay, it was, well yeah, that's true. So you know what? You ought to be like thankful that I'm not like going crazy over this because I feel like every crazy. It's weird. I mean, it's fine. It's not spectacular.

But I've heard him way worse. I've heard a way worse. It was weird. All right. Well, now we got that all the way. So that's why we don't trust Buster only. You asked me if I had dinner with him. You actually, you literally had dinner with Buster only.

dinner with him. We just were in the same line getting food. Okay, trust me. If this ever happens again, I want you to get a photograph of it and you will become... I think I tried to get a photo of it. You would have had 6 million Twitter followers at that point. This was like the 21 or 22 World Series. Yeah.

I mean, I get it. So, the issue to me was... We don't mean to put his business out there, but it was weird. You absolutely put his business out there came up organically. You'd mean to tell me there's not a food, a dinner item that you do not weirdly eat. I'm just trying to think if there's something that I do that would be out of the ordinary.

I don't know why you're fighting this so hard. It's weird. And I'm right. I don't think you're not wrong. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying I just, you know what? Life's too short to drink bad wine. Okay. Well, maybe you're just, you're just offending someone because everyone makes fun of your bad food habits. I have eclectic food habits. But at least I'm consistent. I don't change my mind every other day. Are you? Yeah. Consistently bad. I guess I think. Oh, by way, Katie Bill. this on Twitter says, I do it, I don't eat bread.

No, he had a bun. He had a bun on the side. He was sopping up the chili on his bun. I didn't follow him to his table and watch him either. I don't say sop very often. I just did. Yeah, sometimes you've got to sop it up. Okay. He had a bun. He had a dog and he had chili.

It was just a plate full of chili. Okay. I'm more mad at him for basically just... I'm mad at him. I'm madden for talking bad about 2017 over and over and over. I can get over it. It's fine. I'm not over. I'm just weird. I'm just taking it back. 713-212-5-790.

I want you to think about this between now and 2 o'clock. Is there something you eat weird? Hmm. Like, for instance, this is a, my family teases me about this religiously. Grilled cheese. Love grilled cheese. Uh-oh. Don't put a lot of grilled cheese. I don't like a lot of cheese on the grilled cheese.

I mean, I want a very thin layer. You want one slice. I want one slice or for grading it just a quick handful. The kids can't have enough cheese and they're grilled cheese. So they make fun of me when I say, don't put too much cheese in my grilled cheese. Yeah, it's a grilled cheese, Matt. What do you expect?

It's been cheesy. I love the cheese. I don't need nine different slices of cheese. I'm a grilled cheese. It's wrong with you. That's fine. I mean, that doesn't really bother me. Okay, good.

I'm sure I'll find something that will bother you. between now and 2 o'clock this afternoon. No, you bother me daily. That's what I figured. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. The headlines we have talked about so far on the radio program today. We have included Luca Dantaj, making his debut for the Dallas Mavericks. The Houston Cougars knocking off. Baylor last night, 100 weeks in the top 25. Another 21 season for Kelvin Samson. And my issue is Ross? What? Cougar basketball still does resonate in the town. I'm sorry, Matt. It's college basketball. You know what it is? It's not an indictment against U of H. It's an indictment against college basketball.

Maybe U of H needs a market better. And, you know. Market better. The building's full. You said yourself sometimes, it's not like, it's getting better. Well, games against Liberty don't always have a receipt full.

I get that. I'm more locked in on the Longhorns versus the Alabama Crimson Tide. Oh, mood. Can I please send you, sorry for your loss already? Why?

Because you're going to get crushed. I want to do it. Let me do it today. Number two, Alabama? What's the spread? Yes. This is at the Moody Center? Mm-hmm. Nine and a half.

Four and a half. Oh, dang. So you're telling me there's a chance. Should be nine and a half. Oh, man, I'm going to... It's an eight o'clock game. It's my sister's birthday. Happy birthday, sis.

I'm going to have to be at her birthday dinner, so I'm going to miss the game. You hear that, folks? He loves his siblings. Like, he loves her very much. We get the game on. and where we're eating. Oh, that's good. Then you're all satisfied.

You know the place. It's good. Okay. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9-0. If you want to follow us on Twitter, it's at SportsMT, at Sports RV, and at Connor D. McGovern. We got feelings coming up in one half hour from now.

We have the news at noon and at 1230 of NFL Rewind. So that's coming up as well. Our audio system's down, so you and I are talking here. Okay, so we're still going to go? We're still going to keep going. Okay. We're going to keep talking, baby. We're going to keep talking.

We got all information for the people. Let's talk about some of your more of your weird food leanings. Preferences? Preferences? Preclivities? Yeah, preferences is good. See, if I had a thought about this ahead of time. You asked me.

I can't think of anything that I do that's really, really weird. I mean, when I was a kid, I would put chips on my sandwich, but didn't everybody do that? No, that's fine. That's average. Okay. Do you use oatmeal water or do you use oatmeal with milk? How about this? I always taste food before altering it all.

No, that's what chefs do. I'm okay with that. Yeah, you're right. I never, when I used to watch, when I watch Hell's Kitchen, I never knew that people tasted their food before they served it. And it makes perfect sense to do that. But it seems a little weird that you would take a little sample of every plate of food that you're about to cook and send out.

I think you've got to be full back there. Okay. Hmm. I like things generally like extra crispy. Like, you know, like when my mom's making chorizo and eggs with potatoes. I like the burnt almost completely burnt potatoes. I like my wings almost burned. Super crispy.

Okay. Of course, that's not weird. The wings. I like the drums. All right. We ready go to the second hour? It looks like we're good. All right.

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And the news at noon and NFL rewind in about an hour and a half. We're with you till 2 o'clock today. Major headlines of the day. We have Kellamore going to officially be named the coach of the New Orleans Saints. I'm sure Gordy is beyond pleased of that. Callumor, wasn't he Calamore, like, Public Enemy Number One in Dallas a couple years back, and now he's a head coach after leading the offensive charge in Philadelphia this past year?

Yeah, he was, I mean, he was supposed to be this wonderkind, and he was great, and he was destined to be a head coach. I mean, he's still only 36. Yeah, well, he's got his end coaching opportunity coming up here, so we'll get to that if you want to during the rewind. Also, Luke Godotches last night, 14 points, 5 rebounds, 4. assist. LeBron had 24, 8, and 7 as the Lakers

defeated the Utah Jazz 132 to 113. Dantz in his first game is a Los Angeles Laker. Meanwhile, in Dallas, two fans that held up a sign that said Fire Nico and were seen mouthing Fire Nico on the

arena video screen. Yeah, they have some kind of karaoke. Yes. Crowd karaoke thing that they do. You find a song that People, that is a very popular song and then you sing along with the words. What do they call it? What do they call it? Yeah. Is that what they call it?

Yeah. And the words are up there. So even if you don't know the words, the words are up to you sing along. Yes. And instead of singing, sweet Carolina, or whatever it was there. He's fired mouth Nico. Fire Nico. I mean, fire Nico.

Yeah. So apparently there were fans ejected from the arena on this for violating NBA code of conduct, meaning don't rip on one of our general managers. Thousand people, they said, ultimately were the ones that were protesting before Saturday's game with the Rockets. Wow. That's a lot. Nico Harrison did not attend the Rockets game on Saturday, but was in the arena Monday and did not sit in the arena during the game, probably in his office with the door locked. Oh, okay. He's on the treadmill, trying to get away from it all. Yeah. Two men, including one who wore

dunk, a donches to Slovenian national team jersey, were rejected late Monday after a shouting match with Mark Cuban, who was in his regular baseline seat by the Mavericks bench. I have been told that Mark Cuban has no say-so in The Mavericks at all. That it's more figurehead than anything else. Yeah. Well, he sold off almost all his shares, right? Yeah. Divested as the kids say.

Yeah. To this family that runs casinos. And they are going to buy a plot of land, ultimately, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where they want to build a brand-new arena. Yes. They want to build a entertainment center. And they want to build a big casino with blackjack and craps and roulette. That sounds amazing. I'm going to my first Mavericks game then.

That's the way you got to do it. I'm telling you, Rossi, the city downtown sports facilities, and these things could shift, right? But I think we're going to see a down, we're going to see a significant downturn in downtown sports facilities being built in the next, I will say 20 years.

I think sports teams are going to, going to the burbs where they want to go where the money is. They want to go where the land is cheaper. Way cheaper. Yeah. Significantly. That's why we should be glad we have the Toyota Center a minute made. Yeah.

I mean, put it this way, Ross. If we didn't have those two facilities, would we ever go downtown? Obviously, thousands of people work downtown. So that's, it's a place of, that's busy 7A to 7P, but like tonight, no Rockets game, no Astros game. What's going on in downtown of Houston after 7 o'clock tonight? Bubkiss. Homeless people? Sadly, you're accurate on that. Maybe there's a band at Market Square.

Maybe. You get a little bit of run over in Discovery Green Area on the weekends when the weather's good. Oh my God, there's a billion people out there taking their kids. Yeah. But that's not cheap to park, and I don't know if the concessionaires around there are cheap or not. I've never taken my kids. Of course, my kids are older now, but I think this all started with Atlanta, taking the Braves out of downtown Atlanta and putting them up in the suburbs.

They basically took them to, and I've never been to the Braves facility, but I think they took them maybe 11, 12 miles outside of downtown. It's not that bad. Which would be what for us? What's 11, 12 miles out? Would you say like a Beltway 8 and 10? Memorial City? Something in that range, yeah. Where there's plenty of land.

you build, you build what you want, you build your little city. You build your own little, your own metropolis. And you control all of it. And I guarantee you that the Texans will ultimately want to do that. How old is their stadium? Well, the first year of the Texas was 2002. So you're looking at 23, 24 years, right? How old's Deichen Park?

Diken Park is 2000. That's 25. Why does it feel so much younger than NRG? Because I think probably the improvements have had. happening much more often than what they've done in energy. I still love Dyken Park. Man, this is hard. It's a hard say. It's a hard say. I'll get used to it. Well, I'll get used to.

But I'll be honest with you. If I was a sports owner in this town, I would look for a plot of land and build my own little metropolis. I would absolutely do that. Because, again, it's not like, we're unlike other, Chicago downtown, there are hundreds of thousands. of people that live in Chicago downtown. It's its own community 24-7. There is not even really down to LA is not even really a great

downtown for stuff. No. It's New York, it's Chicago, it's Miami's got a vibrant downtown, but in terms of Indianapolis, it's got stuff, you're right, but it's got more than Houston does, sadly. It does. But it doesn't have the, I'm talking about the

people that live and work and hang on in there. We don't have that. If I were the Texans, if I was the Rockets or the Astros, I think Diken Park's in a good spot. I think they've maintained it and changed things up and whatnot. But if I was a Texans looking for a new facility, I mean, you guys helped me out. Those of you live in the Katy area, would you go? Is there somewhere around the Beltway? Probably. I think there's land over there.

Maybe he's got to be laying. I mean, you just buy it out. Yeah, there's a T. There's a T. There's a T. Not that bad boy down. Nexus Modehouse, you got to go. That's a tough one. Why? It's fine. There's thousands of them. Yeah, but the rolls are really good.

Okay. How good is your steakhouse if you're known for your roles? You never know. And that's it. Okay. That's what I would do. I would build eight restaurants. I don't all eight of them.

I'd build two. I mean, it's like in Arlington. What the hell is Arlington got? Nothing except the AT&T? We saw that during their parade, the World Series parade. Yeah, six people were there. Yeah, but I mean, Jimmy got a, or Jimmy, Jerry Jones, bought a hotel built over there.

There's that Texas area they call that area. There was a Six Flags is over there. Yeah. But I'm talking about just the game day experience. Oh. Yeah, there's a nice Walmart across the street. But no, you've got a set of restaurants and bars that are very close to the baseball park and the football stadium. They have, yeah, they call it Texas Live.

That's what I was thinking. That's recently built. Yeah. I think we're going to say more on that. Okay. And people will say, well, I live in Baytown. I don't want to go to Katie to watch the. the Texans play. You're going to go 10 times a year. You'll figure it out.

I don't think there's an area. And again, I would go west, frankly. I'd go west. I don't know. Is Cyprus feels like there's got to be some land out there? But that seems like maybe a little too far. There's people farming goats and stuff out there. Yeah, but there's money out there. You see those Cypress houses? Yeah. We got nothing in Kaywood, so we're good. What? Yeah, nobody wants to be over there. Too far. I don't disagree with you. I just don't. All right, 1113 of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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centergenicshealth.com. That's S-Y-N-E-R GenXHealth.com. CentrogenicsHealth.com. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. I saw a funny tweet about the Super Bowl halftime said that a lot of people around America couldn't understand one word that Kendrick Lamar, I'm calling him Ken Lamar, by the way.

Kung Fu Kenny, one of his nicknames. Okay. That Kung Fu Kenny was hard to understand. They said this is the same thing that white people say when we try to understand what they're saying what Pearl Jam is trying to say. It's fair. I love Michael McDonald.

Hey, ha. Dave Matthews, not easy to understand. There's a lot of groups. Michael McDonald, one of my all-time favorites. I can't figure out eight words he said in all his songs. Talentless hack. Stop it. I just thought it was interesting that everybody's coming to everybody's defense of their, you know,

oh, I thought it was terrible. I thought it was great. You don't know anything. F you, bye. That's rude. That's how it works. You can't have a civil conversation. Thank God this show has that civil conversation.

It was the most watched Apple Music Half Time show ever with 133 and a half million viewers. According to Rock Nation. The Athletic calls it the fourth best since 1991. Why that, is that the cutoff? Is that when they...

You can all chucked up, but I get it. I don't know why they did. They have a long, long report about it. Let me give you their top 10, okay? And whether this means anything to you or not, who knows? but this is since 1991. Coming in at number 10 was Rihanna in 2003.

Number 9, Madonna, L-A-M-F-A-O, NICI-M-A, and Cilo Green. Man, that was incredible. What a show. In 2012. Tied for seventh was Shakira, Bad Bunny, and Jennifer Lopez. Oh, that was actually an all-timer.

Jennifer Lopez. I couldn't name one song, but I don't care at this point. It doesn't matter. Tied for number seven. 7 Bruno Mars and the red hot chili peppers in 2014. Number 6. Michael Jackson. Number 5.

Michael Jackson, 6? Beyonce and Destiny's Child. Wow. Number four, Kendrick Lamar. Number three, U2. Number two, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, and Eminem. And the number one since 1991 Prince in 2007.

Yeah, that's another thing. Kendrick Lamar has done the halftime with Dre and Snoop and 50. but he's done it twice now basically Beyonce has popped out like five times Prince number one for sure After that The phallic sign was made it very memorable I mean when I think of halftime acts

Mm-hmm Of most memorable It's easy Slippage I'm not saying First of all I didn't see it I mean I was working You didn't know

You were there? I was working the game But I didn't see the halftime My wife and my father-in-law we're sitting in the stands, they were so high up. They didn't realize what had happened until they got home and said, do you hear what happened? I remember doing a Super Bowl postgame show.

We carried the game on, I think on KTRH. And 80% of my calls were about how could this have possibly happened? It wasn't about the game itself. Remember that game came down to the venetary kick to win it? Yeah. Was that the one with the Panthers too? Panthers. Yeah, Panthers and Patriots at NRG.

Yeah, where the Panthers in the very last drive of the game kicked the ball out of bounds over their kicker was? Mm-hmm. Brady. Great finish. Black magic. Great game. And everyone's talking about Janet.

Mm-hmm. I remember that. And having not seen it until I saw it after, I didn't know how, I don't know if it was organized or not organized or planned or not planned. Yeah, we were at a family friend's house watching it was a big party. And I was, I don't know, like 18 years old or whatever. So when you saw that happen, did you go, oh, my God, I can't believe that? or this is a really risky act. It was cool, but I was a teenager,

and there was a bunch of adults everywhere, so I could have been like, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen. I had to be like, oh my God, I can't believe that that just happened. That was awesome. Yeah, it's like when back 15 years ago,

when Girls Gone Wild videos came out, oh, this is a horn. I cannot believe they would do such thing. What's the number again? It's like when you're at dinner with your girl and somebody walks by and you're like, oh, can you believe she's wearing that? You have to just pretend that you don't like it.

Like when Connor's out with his girl and he sees a hot girl walk by with fakies, and he's like, oh, that's atrocious, you see. Yeah. He's like mega tight yoga pants. Oh, yeah. The body of a goddess. And you're like, oh, why would you go outside like this?

This is unbelievable. Yeah. So, yeah. For the second straight day, the Kendrick Lamar stuff, it's not going to go. It's not going to go away for a long time. Because, again, it went to a certain cry. It wasn't meant for everybody. And that's why I think they're going to go rock and roll next year.

Well, Jay-Z is, he had a five-year contract with the NFL. He and Rock Nation. This was the sixth year. So I don't know if they did like a one-year deal or what. Is it because Jay-Z knows all these people? This is it can negotiate? It was after, what was the, there was a show that I guess they thought they needed to kind of re-inject some life. I'll go look it up.

Oh, there were some bands 10, 15 years ago that were just polite and nice, but didn't really necessarily rock the house. Mm-hmm. I think they were looking, yeah, they were looking to make it younger and hipper, as it were. And so they tabbed Rock Nation and Jay-Z to produce it. And they've been doing it for six years, but I think this was his last year. Yeah, okay. So, I mean, it wasn't just about just picking somebody. It was actually choreographing and creating the whole thing.

I mean, they spent obviously millions of dollars in that. Maroon 5 was his first. Oh, it was after Timberlake, huh? Did people not like the Timberlake one? Yeah, Pepsi Zero was doing it. And then, yeah, it was he did Maroon 5, Shakira, the weekend, the Dr. Dre thing, Rihanna, Usher, and then Kendrick Lamah. Yeah. Well, as I said to you before the game, during the game, and the last couple days after the game,

to find somebody that is universally beloved, it's impossible. Oh, I remember one of the reasons they had him do it because everybody, nobody wanted to do it. They were all backing out. There's a bunch of people saying, like, I'm not going to get paid for this. It's not worth it. Has Taylor done it before? No, I don't think so. I mean, she would probably have the widest appeal, right?

I mean, she's the most popular performer today. Yeah, but she doesn't need it. And they don't really, they don't pay you, correct? I couldn't tell you that. I believe you don't get paid. Or if you do it's minimal. I mean, she doesn't need anything else to do. I mean, she's got every stadium full and all her records are sold.

I mean, if anybody, but I would just, wouldn't you want to put that on your resume? I mean, there's not, I mean, a lot of people have done it. Yeah. I was surprised Kendall Lamar agreed to do it, but then he dropped an album and announced a stadium tour. So that kind of made sense. Is he coming to Houston? He is. You want me to get your tickets for your birthday?

Yeah, good seats. I would say I predict. No. Where was he performing? NRG. He's going to fill up NRG. See, I'm skeptical on that. Are you really?

Yeah. Oh, he'll be fine. He fills up... Because people from out of town will come to Houston. He's filled up Toyota Center. Multiple times. He can fill up Toyota Center, but I don't know about filling of NRG. It's a little, seemed a little ambitious, in my opinion.

George Strait filled up Kyle Field with no problem. Yeah, it was a one-off. He's doing a tour. All right. I'll go with you. Really? No chance. Come on, I went to Paul Simon with you.

It was for free tickets. Oh. You think we can get some? Probably not. I talked to my boy, Kiotti. Why don't you go ask Kiadi? Yeah. Kiadi Hardbody, Kiadi.

Hard body, Kiadi, my idea. I've never called another man a hardbody before. I will never do it again. I'm not doing it again, ever. Kiata is wonderful. He sure doesn't have any flab at all? I don't know. I haven't seen the man's shirtless?

It's good. Picks? You haven't seen his picks? Where's pecks? All right. I just think if you give yourself, if you gloss yourself that, that's a high expectation.

It's a lot of pressure to stay in shape, right? Yeah. You can't take a week off. You can't like, you know, they bring free pizza or wings or something up here. You can't be like, you got to stay away.

Oh, hard bodies don't eat that. No, I know. Or you just go throw it up. That's terrible to say. Don't say that. He says, it just motivates him to work out harder. That's good.

But he's under Rockets games all the time. Yeah. I've never punched him in the midsection. He's doing quite well for himself. Yeah, he's doing good. But I just, I wouldn't want to call myself hard-bide. But 93-7 the beat, Rocket stuff.

Yeah. Got probably have a TV show before you know it. Probably hosting a game show before I will. I would imagine. I would put him first. No, thank you. He does a great job with the halftime entertainment. All right, let's do some gut feelings you want to.

My first gut feeling is about next year's Super Bowl. Mm. Not predicting the teams. Oh, the halftime show? Not predicting the halftime show, but just a prediction about what I think is going to happen next year with the teams that are in the Super Bowl. Mm-hmm.

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This has been so appealing. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. 1133 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. time now for our weekly get-together where we make sports predictions. We call them gut feelings. We are not held accountable to them unless we put our name on them. Okay. How do we do last week's sports survey? Well, Matt, two weeks ago, I'll give you one from two weeks ago because it's a hit for you. You said top five Super Bowl watched ever. And you were correct. It was number one. Now they do

add in the streaming numbers. They call it most watch. That means most eyeballs, most viewers. So If somebody clicks on it for one second, that counts as a viewer. So most watched ever, though, was the Super Bowl. So that's a nice hit by you, Mr. Thomas. You also said last week, Rockets win tonight. They didn't win. No, whoever was. Whoever was.

So that's an L. You also had, you said this one. A game goes over. Oh, you were talking about the Super Bowl. Bowl, I think. Yeah, the point over. Yeah, I got that one.

So that's a win. You did. Yep. And you picked the Chiefs. Ugh. That's in most America, right? I pick, get to me in a second.

Oh, here we go. I mean, I just, you know, sometimes I get something right, Maddie. All right. You also said, by next Monday, Breggman has a home. And he doesn't. I can't.

I can't. I mean, I I mean, this is not like an all-time. all time, I can't believe moment, but I really can't believe it that he doesn't have a place this year. Yes.

That's a loss for me. I had the Rockets winning as well. Whoops. I said the game would go under, which was looking good until Pat Mahomes Garbage Time Star came through. You don't say this very often. You don't say this very often. A Super Bowl stat

Patting Pat Mahomes. I also had the Eagles winning. I got feeling that two weeks in a row that the Eagles will win. for you. You stood your ground. So those were my gut feelings. And the only thing I wrote for Connor McGovern was that he's had the Chiefs three-peating. Oof. Not his best work.

That's unfortunate. But he still has a great demeanor. He's doing wonderful. We having some technical issues. He's doing great. He hasn't thrown anything today. He hasn't yelled at anybody. Me and on our hand, I'd be out there just crazy like a lunatic.

We have, yeah. Management hasn't ordered him to have anger management classes yet. Yeah, those are fine. Those are fine. It's just a one-day thing. Yeah, he's doing great. All right. Time now for this week's Got Feelings. I'm going to start with one of the two teams.

No, let me rephrase. The winner of next year's Super Bowl will be a first-time Super Bowl winner. Okay, hold on. The Super Bowl winner. The Super Bowl winner. The Lions. Yes. Texans.

Bill's. Would be the Raven. The Bengals win? Bingles have never won one. They've been, but they never won. Okay. I will give you the next year's... You may want to put this deep in the archives.

I'll save it for like a year. Well, you can bring it up. That the winner of next year's Super Bowl will be a first-time Super Bowl winner. Okay. There you go. It's interesting. You could be Minnesota too.

I like that. Thank you. Man, look at you, Matt. Going a little outside of the box. I like it. By the way, if you've got a gut feeling under a sports prediction, or anything for that matter,

713-212-5-790 7-13-212-5-7-90 Dan Matthews has texted with a gut feeling Really? He says Next year's Super Bowl Half-Time Act will either be, and we'll give them this Because there's such a wide range of people that could be He says it's either going to be either Post-Malone

Or Jelly Roll Could they go country next year? They certainly could They could And post-malone is a megastar I mean, that to me makes more sense than a true rocker. Like, Clinton's been banging the drum for Metallica.

I don't think Metallic would be the halftime act. I don't think it's going to happen. Sorry, Clinton. Post Malone jelly roll makes a lot of sense. Maybe both. So that's Dan's gut feeling. Okay. Rockets beating the suns tomorrow night.

Rockets win both. Ooh, I love it. I don't know if I believe that, though. Say it like you mean it. Put your name on. Put your name on. Rockets win. You know what I do?

As a broadcaster, I take it one step at a time. I got Rockets beat in the Suns tomorrow night. I'm doing Suns and Golden State. If you're going to the Rocket Suns game tomorrow, it's at 7.30 as compared to 7 o'clock. It's a rare 7.30 start. Not because the Rockets are trying to start a new time. They're doing it because you have to allow a certain number of hours in between games. and Phoenix plays a late game in Memphis tomorrow night.

Oh, okay. And a back-to-back, tonight, actually. Well, that's great. Sorry, I just wanted to make sure give you the heads up on that. Extended launch pad? I feel like, yeah. Why not do an hour? Oh, Jesus, we'll figure that out.

All right. What else you got? I got one that you're not going to like, but it's just a feeling I have in my gut, man. Was it involved. The Houston Texans will be welcoming back

Stefan Dix. Huh. I'm not adverse to it. I'm not anti-Sephan Diggs. I just have been saying that I don't think he was one of them. You said he was going to come here and be a locker room cancer and he wouldn't finish the season. By the way, I would take the demeanor of Stefan Diggs ten times more than I would take the demeanor of Laramie Tunsell. Yeah, easy. Okay. By that was a fraudulent captain by Laramie Tonsle. That was by default. Oh, he's been around forever. We're going to vote him.

They wouldn't get voted. He ain't a leader. It's a waste. It's overrated. His peers voted him as captain, and he made the Pro Bowl. Scoreboard. Pro Bowl means nothing. It means you can play Tug of War. Getting selected to the Pro Bowl is... No, and it doesn't mean nothing.

It means nothing. It's only a handful of people get selected to the Pro Bowl. Now, if you make it as 8th alternate like Gardner Minchuted last year... You know what? You make an all pro team, and then we'll talk to me. We need to make a distinction, by the way. This needs to start happening. Pro Bowl selection versus Pro Bowl appearance.

We got to do something. Because everybody's out there going... How about we eliminate the Pro Bowl? Oh, Eli Manning, four-time Pro Bowl or four-time Pro Bowl. bowler. Or how about just so, yeah, eliminate it but have it named, like all pro. There's no all pro game. You're just named to the all pro team. Right. There's no all-American

game in college anymore. You just get named to the all-American team. You just get named to the pro bowl, but they don't have anything. Because now four-time pro bowler, Eli, he was only selected twice in 16 years of his career. Two other times, he was an alternate. And then it confuses

everything. Yeah, there is always a distinction between Pro Bowl and all-pro. I can't make a prediction on Stefan Dix. I went back originally and said this was a one and done situation. I thought the injury probably helped my cause. But if he comes back on an unlimited deal,

one year deal that doesn't break the bank, honestly, it's because probably there's not a lot of options for him out there. I know there's been some rumors about him going to Dallas, maybe. I don't know. It's just a gut feeling. Okay. That's all it is. We're not going to judge you either way on that one. Thank you, Matt. I got one for you. The Texas Longhorns do not make the NCAA tournament.

we'll talk to me after tonight oh do you want me to really talk to you after tonight the vandy loss was there was a tough loss to vandy I mean let's see they got a win over who the best wins over the Aggies keep going oh mazou

was ranked when they beat them okay and then they could beat Alabama tonight they're only four and a half point dogs Texas makes the nit they're home for kentucky this weekend as well oh yeah NIT bound, baby.

Are the Gordy's going up to Austin for that? Feels like they would. Oh, my God. They're going to have a 90% chance. There's like a bus people going up there. Okay. Just win these two games against Alabama, Kentucky, and you're in. All right.

Cougars for the tournament and the NBA tournament will be, at the end of the day, a three seed. I'm sticking with one seed. Okay. I think they're going to lose in the conference tournament. Well, they've been dealing with some injuries, right? Yeah.

They're slowly but surely getting. back to health. I hope there are at least a two, but I wouldn't be stunned because Lannardi's been downplaying them all year for some reason. Lannardi's a jerk. Yeah, I don't like Lernardie. Damn down. Kim POM has the number three in the country. You know what, I mean, let me, let me raise that. They're going to be a two seat. Yeah, let's go. Two seat. One seat. I want to be a one seat. One seat. I like, I like being on top of the mountain. Hmm, interesting.

But I'll think, yeah, no worse than a two seat. That's what I'll go with. No worse than a two seat. No worse than a two seat. Yeah. All right. All right. Is your microphone, am that working all right? Everything?

Yeah, I think so. Can you hear me? Yeah, yes, sir. We can't. Okay. And good thing, ain't nobody got time for that, isn't today.

That's true. But I'll say Rock's win the next two. Mm-hmm. And then Alex Bregman does not sign by this time this week, or next week.

Bregman does not sign. You want to do one more gut feeling on Bregman's sign? Yeah, you know, I'm going to say he does. I'm going to say he does every Tuesday until he does. How about this?

I'm going to name every team and then eventually one of me signs. You know what? I'm going to go with it. This is my latest one. Erase the previous ones. Okay. He signs the Red Sox. Alex Bregman signs with the Red Sox.

They're only offering short term and it wouldn't be the money he wants because he's going to play second base. I'm just throwing blank against the ball. Okay. I got you. I got one for you. Go. Alex Breggman signs. He's got no choice. Short-term deal.

With? Go ahead. Don't stutter. Hello? You got to do it. Let's go before we got to go to break. We've got to find advertisers. I don't know.

You want to say Tigers? I think the Yankees are Tigers. Tigers because of... Yankees could come out of left field with a short-term deal. They would do it for one year. Why are you bothering going to Detroit for one year? I'm just going to opt-outs. I'm just saying opt-outs and I'm saying where.

Because I've already predicted. I don't even know where I predicted. Put your name on a team. I predicted. while ago. Oh, you're saying with the Tigers. I predicted the Yankees a while ago. It doesn't matter. I predicted every American League East team. December 10th, I said New York Yankee. Well,

that's not happening anymore, but... Nope. All right. You have a gut feeling about any... I'm just saying a short-term deal with opt-outs. Okay. So, no mega deal like he's been little chasing after. He's got no choice at this point. All right. There's just no way. If you've got a gut feeling on us, no, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90, for gut feelings here on the Matt Thomas Show.

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On Sports Talk 790. All right, Joan jumping in on a gut feeling. Bregman signs the Astor is 6 years 165. That would be a $9 million bump from the $156. But Buster only put out a report earlier, late last night or this morning that said that it's down to three teams and the Astros aren't one of them. You trust a guy named Buster, though?

At what point do you think you need to get rid of the nickname? Do you, because it's so synonymous with you, do you never get rid of it? Like Scoot Henderson? Yeah. Like there's an E-SPN broadcaster that called the Cooter yesterday. The name is Boog-Hombie. B-O-O-O-G, boog.

Boog. Boog is not his given name? No, John's a given name. Oh. He calls himself Boog-Shambi. What about Hollywood Brown? I think you could stick with Hollywood, though. That's a good name.

Okay, so let's put this way. People that have nicknames that should stick with them for all their life. I mean, clearly Busterson is what, late 50s or maybe 60s. Maybe it's a given name. There's no chance that you call him. No. My name is like Pernel or something like that. Robert Stan.

Robert Stanberry Olney, the third. Yeah, I guess he was called Buster when he was a kid. Yeah, so maybe Buster was to separate himself from his dad. Yeah. Okay, so that's, but he didn't separate himself from that. Yeah. Who else has a nickname that we just, that lives by it? Magic.

That's true. We don't call him Irvin. The dude's name is Magic Johnson. Well, in the 80s, it was Magic. Until. And nobody ever says anything. They should all let it slide. 1152.

Magic Johnson. Yeah. We got it the first time. Who else? Magic. Sorry, go ahead. Who else has nicknames that we just... I don't know.

The late Flip Saunders was Flip. I don't think his name was Flip. Flip or Anderson? that's a good one we'll think about this but i just i was curious that buster would not his change which drake his first name is aubrey yeah well but isn't every rap star have like like uh 50 cent was not named 50 out of mom's belly and curtis something you know what this is today's today you know what kendrick lamar's name is kenny kendrick lamar oh okay duckworth oh his middle name is

of Lamar, huh? Okay. Now, you have a lot of wrestlers that change their name for identity purposes, but that's just that changes their name. That's true. Like, Hunter Hurst-Helmsley is really Paul Leveck. Really? Yeah.

Triple H's name isn't Triple H? No. Oh, my whole life is a lie. You rolled your eyes as you said that. That's terrible. Guy injecting steroids and oiling himself up for 30 years. First of all, he was never convicted of any sort of

steroid use. That's not nice. You think he wasn't, if, if I put a gun to your head, and said it goes off if you tell me Triple H didn't do steroids. What happens? Yeah, I wouldn't go there. Yeah, okay. And he does oil up, right?

Kenneth on Twitter says, Breggman just looks greedy at this point. Never thought I'd say that about Breggs, but I'm over it now. Move on, we'll be fine. I think Dana Brown, by the way, agrees with you on that. It's just dragging on longer than it should have.

I'm not going to call him greedy. He's trying to do what... He was under contract until he's 30 years old. So he's basically got... One big one. One big... He's on drag left. Yeah.

So he's trying to get to maximize his value. That's his, this is right. This is prerogative, as Bobby Brown would say. V-Rock says, Kenny the Jet Smith, nickname. Well, I don't,

first of all, nobody called him the jet until after he left the rockets. Chipper Jones says, oh, oh, oh, you, we call him Chipper. Yeah, we don't call him, Larry. D's nuts for Fun S.

Thank you. Yeah. Chipper, that's absolutely 100%. That's a good one. There's got to be some other people, too. I'm sure there's others. Thousands. It said, you know what, my nickname is better than my real name.

Yeah. So we just call you Peach Basket. Nobody does that. Peach Basket, Thomas. I go around the NBA. I'm at every Rockets game. Nobody ever says, hey, Peach Basket, what's going on? You're a liar.

It's happened before. You're a lie. Maybe once. Maybe once. It's happened at least once. Just once. You know, if you see Matt's anywhere, I just call him Peach Basket. Because he is the fountain of basketball knowledge.

He's like Dr. Nace with himself. So thus we call him Peach Basket Thomas. If Julius Irving walked in the room, I wouldn't call him Julius. Wouldn't call him Mr. Irving. I'd call him, what's up, Dr. Jay? What if he did call him Julius? Do you think his mother called him Julius? Probably.

Oh, I'm sure. They call me Mr. Radio Aphrodisiac. They call you that too. They do not. You said that's yours. Your words. That was AI related. That was not AI.

That was not me. That was Matt Thomas. I am a radioid aphrodisiac, though. You just whisper in the voice. voice into the guys and girls. Oh, sweet love is made to the play by play of my broadcast. We're getting Babe Ruth, Sparky Anderson. George Herman Ruth.

Oh, Sparky. It's George Anderson. They call him the babe, the sultan of SWAT. Yeah. It happens more in baseball than it does anything else for. I think so, too. Especially when you go back to like the 1919s. That's right. Tungsten arm, O'Doyle, and whatnot. And sneaky snake. Yes. He wouldn't call Jake. He was sneaky snake. That's true.

All right. We're going to do the news that new. What is the number one headline? We didn't have a piping hot sports they did we yesterday. You'll find out coming up in the news at noon. All right. NFL Rewan. It's coming up at 1230 today. And I think believe or not it should be, what are we going to say?

We just talked about it. Well, believe or not, it should be. Oh, rappers, real names? Rappers, real names. Maybe I'll think about honoring the Eagles. You mean Glenn Fry? May he rest? No.

The Philadelphia ones? No. Joe Walsh and any of those guys. Don Hindley. Joe Walsh was sounded so bad at the match. Schfier. He's had more drugs run through his body than CVS. But it's like when he was singing, I was like, please turn this off.

It was terrible. Even Glenn Fry's son was better. Vince Gill's singing Glenn Fry's songs was significantly better. Joe Walsh. Oh, God. Don Henley sounded great. Good for him. I want to go back.

To the. Sphere. Sphere. Sphere. Sphere. Sphere. fear. I don't know what you make it. You yiddish it up somehow. It's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for myself.

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The crack of the bat, the pop of the glove. Spring training will be upon us in one week, Matthew. The applying of the suntan lotion. Yeah, it depends. It could get sunny out there. I'm going to make sure everybody's taken care of. Now, my legs are super pasty white. Oh, my gosh.

Translucent nearly. I had that problem all my life. I'm sorry, Matt. Eh, it's going to happen. I don't want to bust them out because I don't want to be teased. But they're very well. I wouldn't say a word about it. You'd be thinking bad things, though.

Yeah, I wouldn't think, be thinking. No, I'd move on. That's nice. That's something I'm going to fixate on. I would hope not. Ladies gentlemen, every day at this time, or about their time. Yesterday we did it at 1220. Today, we're going to move it to the regular spot.

We present to you the news at noon. for the new center. All right, man, a lot going on in the sports world right now, all over the place with the Super Bowl being, we'll have some more in the NFL, with the Super Bowl being over, coming up with the NFL Rewind at 1230. But let's focus on, well, the big trade that happened at the trade deadline was Luca Donchich becoming a Los Angeles Laker.

He made his debut on ESPN, and well, there was a certain fan base here in Houston, maybe another one in Waco, that were none too happy, about getting bumped off to ESPNU. Kevin and Coach in studio, we want to give you this important navigation. If you want to catch the finish of Baylor and Houston, we invite you to head to ESPNU. Here on ESPN Coach, it is the Laker debut of Luca Donchich. What are you interested to see? Two of the toughest matchups in all of college basketball, playing together, trying to coexist

and find a way to take the Lakers back to the level that they expect to be at competing for championships. That's what I expect to see, and that's the big question moving forward. Jazz and Lakers, Dave Pash, Tim Legler on the call. Lakers would go on to win the game over the lowly Utah Jazz 132 to 113. Lucidonch is not factoring in in a huge way. Just 24 minutes, he did have 14.5 rebounds for assists. As the Lakers routed the Jazz, and now by percentage points are the fourth seed in the West. Look, it's only been in one game.

We didn't know what that this thing play out for probably a couple of years, three years maybe. But this early on, very early in the game, too entirely early, frankly. But we're sending ourselves up for this being the worst trade in sports history. Most unbalanced? Anthony Davis has hurt. He's a good player. Yeah. The Lakers are looking for a center.

They're not satisfied with Jackson Hayes. We didn't even mention that the Mark Williams trade got rescinded. But now the hornets are trying to fight the Lakers. Correct. Yes, they are. So that's a big fight. They're trying to force the trade. What is it going on? Meanwhile, the folks on first take this more yesterday morning or this morning

we're talking about the Lakers eating a center. And Brian Winhorse was like, go get... Dwight's been retired for a bunch of years. Dwight's like, I'm not retired. And he also told Brian Winhorst stop eating cheeseburgers. Oh, that's... That's not very nice. I don't know.

it's not nice at all apparently demarcus cousins available he's playing basketball in mongolia right now for real that's what stephen i said i wouldn't think he wasn't Taiwan is he in mongolia now he's moving around maybe he's playing the entire united nations tour i was in taiwan i even try to go see the taiwanese basketball

did you really no i didn't oh you should have us i got you yeah we're busy i'm sure checking other things all right matt let's keep it moving on the news at noon as we have other things to get to including Joe Espada on Chandler Rome's podcast. Now what's the title of that podcast again, Matt? Trademark City Blowout.

Crush City Territory. Rome, Chandler, listen to me. I'm going to sue your podcast. Matt Thomas filing a lawsuit also part of the news at noon, but Joe Espada talking about a number of things on Crush City territory, also including, while he talked about Jose Altuve being an ultimate team guy, possibly moving to left field. We'll play that later.

on in the show, but how about future plans for the Astros Prize prospect that they got back in the Tucker deal, Cam Smith? This guy can carry your team for years. He's got that potential, right? He could play third base. I think he's athletic enough to play corner outfields. But right now he's going to come in. I'm going to play him at third because that's his natural position. He moves so well for a guy he sighs that that's why, you know, you just don't, you just don't, you just don't know, right, where he's going to end up because he's going to tell you. There's so much potential that I think we just got to go slow and let him tell us where he's going to end up. But the bat is special. It's right center field power. This guy knows his zone. Cam Smith, the number one prospect in the Astros' rankings.

MLB Pipeline has his ETA as estimated time of arrival in the major leagues, 2026. Joe Spottis, he's going to put him at third. And he's the type of talent that can carry a franchise for years. Matthew. So wait a man. If Cam Smith is projected as a third baseman, and he's

one year away from being that guy, and obviously the organization thinks the world of him, then why make the offer to Alex Brumman to begin with? Because this is exactly the same thing they did with Jeremy Pena. They were going to offer Carlos Carras Correa a super competitive deal. They knew,

with Correa, he was going to move on and go get the mega deal. They had Jeremy Pena locked and loaded, and he came in and made a big impact immediately helping the Astros win the World Series. You can move Alex Bregman a second when he gets old. You can move Cam Smith around. He said he could play corner outfield spots. You'd figure it out.

Yeah. I guess this to the bigger point of is the Astros went and got a better first baseman. They went and made a trade that got them a third basement in return. They've already decided to move Al-Tuba at least to have a sample size in the left field regardless of whether or not Bregman signs. I just don't understand

the whole signing. It's almost like there's two different factions within the Astros organization. There's a group people that say we want Bregman, or maybe it's one person, maybe the owner. And you have the baseball operations side. Like, man, we're moving forward, we're moving on. We don't have Alex Bregman in our long-term plans. Don't you see that way? That could happen that way. I mean, it could be that way.

Okay. That's all my commentary on that. All right, Matt, let's go off the beaten track on the news at noon, which I know you love. Apparently, the FBI has found secret JFK assassination records after a Trump executive order to open up the documents. The secret records contained 14,000 pages of documents the FBI found in a review triggered by the executive order. 61 years after Kennedy was in Dallas, assassinated in Dallas. These documents will be released to the public.

What do you think we're going to find out, Matt, in these 14,000 pages? Will you be scanning them with Adam Clinton? What could be the possibility? A fair with Merrill Monroe? CIA of involvement. Okay. Fidel Castro involvement,

mafia involvement. Nothing about Marilyn Monroe. Why are you? I mean, it's a great, it's a great mystery. relationship. What is in that great... Am I wrong? I'm not wrong.

Yeah, everybody knows they were... Knowing what? Together. What about is assassination, Matt? Not as a love affairs. Oh, what were the 14,000 pages announced? They will announce that... You got a gut feeling on this, Matt?

The gut feeling is that Lee Arvery Haswald did not act alone. How do you feel about that? My gut feeling will be that the mafia was involved. they were debts that maybe that he was promised them things I'm writing this down actually

my gut feelings JFK documents okay so you're going JFK was mafia assassinated mafia heavily involved I will go on the opposite just to say it I will say Fidel Castro

was involved in the assassination just to throw it up JFK got in and then Conner's going to go to the field he's going to field he's going to feel he's going to stay

with Lee Harvey Hallswell was a nutso okay all right Okay. That's it. And that's your news and name. You should have said that for the 2 o'clock show. They love that JFK stuff.

Oh, Adam Clanton loves it. Client could do what would like to do a four-hour show about OJ and JFK and really forget a bit of everything else. If these documents reveal that OJ assassinated JFK, his brain's going to explore. He wouldn't have to take like a week's vacation. All right, that is the news at noon. NFL Rewin coming up at the bottom of the hour. 713212-5-790.

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The Astros have agreed to a minor league contract with veteran infielder Luis Guillermo? I don't know. I wish I knew how to pronounce it. G-U-I-L-L-R. Luis Guillermo. Giorame. 30-year-old has played seven years in the big leagues, mostly with the Mets. He's a lefty bat.

Provides some infield depth, meaning they're going to open it up for a bunch of different folks to play some second base this year. And meaning he's also been a fringe major leaker for the last couple years. I'm afraid. Can I guess his career numbers? Sure. U-Tem when you pull him up. I have him. Seven years in the majors.

Seven years. Six as a MET. Okay. Most number of games he's played in a single season has been? 102. Oh. Hmm. Again, if he walked in and said, I'm Luis Guillermo, I'd say, hi.

I mean, I know the name. I don't know the name. Tell me about him. 411 games, 1,000 played appearances. Okay, so literally 1,000, right at the nose? 1,000. 10. Okay, so basically that.

I'll say he's a career 230 hitter. 251. Okay. Any pop? Slugging 322. Okay, so the answer's no. The OPS? 658.

Oh, gosh. Yish. Career home runs and those 1,000 plate appearances? Oh, let me give him a range. That's a little under two seasons worth. Really? A thousand plate appearances? A thousand ten.

He has 17. home runs. Five. God, I don't know this guy at all, do I? It's a huge signing by the Houston Astros. Okay, go look at his defensive numbers. Please tell me that he's... I'm not worried about his numbers stats.

I'm worried about the positions he's played. Oh, okay. Or he's played over the... He plays everywhere. He plays everywhere in the infield. Okay, well, then you know what? You need one of those guys. And does Dubon then shift over to be...

I mean, it's a minor league deal. Wait, first of all, we don't even know if he's going to make the team. Yeah, as a minor league deal. I mean, how many... How many utility guys you're going to keep when you're infield? Two? Oh, he pitched an inning in 2020. Okay.

Is ERA? It looks like it's zero. Nice. So he's a three up and three down kind of guy. Yeah. Hmm. Hmm. I mean, the two utility infielders.

Ooh, Lifetime ERA is nine. Is it Desenzo and Singleton? He's got nine innings and six appearances. Oh, gee. This is not making me sound any more encouraged about it. He pitched. What? Yeah.

You can throw him out there as a position player. Who can't you pitch? Don't you be down by 10 runs before that to happen or something like that? Yeah, he's nine now. That's fine. It'd be all right. We got some things to discuss when we get down to Florida. Okay.

With Dana Brown? Yeah. DeCenzo. McTagger portrays him as an outfielder. Desenzo. Dezenzo? But he can also play, obviously, he's been playing left in the Puerto Rican League.

I think it's seven, eight games he's been out there. I think DeZenzo is going to be a sneaky pick for a left field as a contributor. Okay. Utility players, there's two of them. Maricio DuBahn and John Singleton. Utility means you can play multiple positions. That's true. For him, is first base and left-handed.

It means you've got to utilize them. I guess that's actually true. That's right. Starting five, according to McTaggart. Valdez, Brown, Blanco, Eraggetti, was Necky. Was Nesky. Wasneski.

Because I always say Winsniewski. No, it was Winski. I know it is, but I always say it wrong. Well, I say that stadium in Vegas wrong. Yeah. The Sphere. Yeah.

Eight games in left for Zach Dzenzo in the Puerto Rican Fall League. Okay, so they're making a concert effort for him to get comfortable on it. 10 at first, one at third, and eight in left. If Christian Walker's healthy, he's playing 150 games next year, correct? You would hope so? Yeah. at first base, locking it down, gold glove, big 30 home runs.

Big power header. He's playing every home game humanly possible and admit it made part and playing all the games in Boston too. There's actually a lot of places that have comfortable left field. Yeah, he'll be all right. All right, so let me go to this McTaggart group here.

This is interesting. This is what he does, and it's why we love having McTaggart. And I'll be with us during the course of the baseball season. We'll get him on probably towards the end of spring training. Wonderful. He's got one first baseman. Walker. Jose, he's got it second.

Payne at short. Parades is at third. Outfielders, McCormick, Myers, Gamal, Descenzo. Eventually, Jacob Mountain. True. Save us, Jacob Mountain, please. Jordan Alvarez, a D.H. And then let me see what else he's got going here. I got to pop up to show up on this thing.

Utility, Maricio Dubon and John Singleton. Starting pitchers, Valdez, Hunter, Brown, Renel Blanco, Spencer Arigetti, Hayden Wisniew, Relievers, Hayter, Abraeu, Scott, King, Ort, Dubin. And the last two are interesting. He's got Forrest Woodley making the 26-man roster coming out of spring,

and Raphael Montero, who has a non-rostero invitee at this point. Be nice to have him back. His deal is done right, though. No, no, no. He's got one more. This is the last year. This is the last year. Sorry. What a disaster. So I wanted you to go back and apologize for what you just said.

You said, be nice having him back. For what? Nice to have who back. Montero. Yeah, it'd be nice to have him back if he can pitch well. What do you mean? It would be nice to have all those guys back if they pitch well. It won't be nice to have Ben Gamma or Brian King back if he can't get people out.

Yeah, Brian King, lefty, crafty, crafty. Not that crafty. Isn't it funny how every. left-handers crafty? Yes. And every short guy is sneaky? Well, Josh Hader's not crafty. No. Kind of actually.

Every white NFL players, college players got a high motor. You have black guys have high motors. Daniel Hunter has a high motor. They all have high motor. Wheel Anderson has a high motor. I know white guys have terrible motors. I got a terrible motor. I can't even turn a motor on.

12. No, we can't even do. That's not even count. That doesn't even count. That to me is a roster that's good. We've got holes. Let me just read you this outfield wall again. No, you don't have to. Oh, I want you to.

No, we're okay. Give me the raw emotions. We don't need it. No, we're good. Chas McCormick, Jake Myers, Ben Gamble, Zach Desenzo. And now again, you'd have Al-Avarez as an outfielder, obviously, and maybe even Al-Tubei playing some.

Maybe the Ben-Gammel Renaissance will continue. he was good in a very small sample size. 20 games, 69 played appearances, one home run, 739 OPS. So he gets on base and has a little pop, but not a lot of home run pop. Not a whole lot of slug.

That's basically been his career. You know what we're going to have this year? He's 32. So we're not building for the future for him. You need a crafty veteran. Well, he's great. Okay, he's left-handed, so he fits the crafty profile.

It's funny, you cannot find a crafty right-handed out player under any circumstance. All right, NFL rewind is up next. What did we miss from the Super Bowl that, and maybe we got a new hire in New Orleans with a coach. We'll discuss that. And all things NFL, we do have, believe it or not today at 150,

we'd figure out the category? I'll figure it out. I think I'm going to do Eagles players. Okay. So Philadelphia Eagle players, not Eagle is the band. Or the Eagle itself. 713-212-5-7-9 if you want to chime in.

We just gave you the 26-man projection according to Brian McTugger, our friend from MLB.com. Love it. Like it? Scared the death of it. 7-13-212-5-7-9. Lunch-timers. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. There's a poll question up on today's Twitter account.

If you want to follow SportsMT, I greatly appreciate. appreciate that. Here is the question. Texans winning the AFC after watching Casey's performance in the Super Bowl has you either more confident, less confident, or no opinion about what to see from the Texans next year. 51% of you are more confident. 17% of you are less confident. And no opinion, 32%. I'm of the no opinion.

I don't think watching two plays, two teams play makes me think about the Texans being any closer any further away. You should. She's clearly beat the Texans, and then they got absolutely mauled and destroyed by the Eagles. But everything could change for next year. They're further and further away, Matt. By the way, ESPN's postseason rankings for next, going in the next year, had the Texans finishing, or had them as number 11 in their power rankings. Why are you stealing my material for NFL ReW? I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Let me present to you. My God. And the NFL Rewin. Well, Matt, first we will talk about that Super Bowl. numbers coming out for the viewership. Now, of course, we do have to remember that this also adds in streaming

numbers, but still, record average 126 million U.S. viewers. This is a gut-feeling hit for you, Matt. Game televised by Fox, Fox Deportes, Telemundo, and streamed on

Tubi, as well as the NFL's digital platforms. The record. 126 million. viewers. Now, there is a rating that is associated with it, that streaming services do not gather, meaning a certain, each number, each group of thousands of people equals a rating point. Do we know what the rating was on the Super Bowl? I do not. As you were talking, I was trying to pull it up on Wikipedia, and it looks like those numbers are not available as of yet.

I want to ask a question for going back to the rewind. Okay. If you did. did not watch the Super Bowl at all. Okay? Yeah. Anybody listening to our audience? You can give us an answer on the phones at 713-212-5-790 or on Twitter. If you did not watch the Super Bowl at all, what did you watch? Or did you go out and do something else?

What was your activity besides? Because think about it, Sunday night is a night. I mean, very few people go out on a Sunday night. It's 5.30. Yeah, just day drunk. which you're getting ready for the next day of work. Did you read a book? Did you get on the internet?

Did you watch a movie? Probably. Did you binge watch a series? If you did not watch the Super Bowl, and maybe this is not just certainly for you, but maybe your spouse is not a sports fan. What did your spouse watch if she didn't watch the Super Bowl with you? 713-212-5-7-90.

Because again, the Super Bowl is one of those rare events that even the novice, even the basic, basic sports fan is going to watch because of more of the company. My daughter is 17 years old. She does not like the NFL. She doesn't care about it. She couldn't name five players if you paid her to.

She went to the Super Bowl party and she wore a Patma home jersey because her friends were hanging out watching the game. Well, she locked in. They only showed Taylor like once, I think. Yeah, much to her dismay. You think so? You think Taylor was upset? You think she recorded it and was disappointed to hear she was only on once? Probably. I don't think so. All right. So again, if you're a spouse,

did not watch the game, what did they watch? 713-212-5-7-90. Back to your rewind. Well, Matt, the Super Bowl averaged 126 million viewers. The halftime show broke the record with most viewers ever, with 133.5 million viewers. So 7.5 million viewers, according to this

research survey, flipped the game on, but weren't watching it beforehand. Well, it's 126 was the average. Oh, I see. Probably the second half, everything went down, because there were people, I think they said, 1.3 million people tuned out after the halftime show. And then once the game was a complete blowout, probably there was a lot lower viewership. So they probably could have smashed the record even more if it were a competitive game, which it was not.

All right, Matt, you brought up the ESPN power rankings. I was going to bring to the table the early athletic power rankings. Okay. Of course they have the Eagles and Chiefs number one and number two, Matt. Who do you think they have number three? Detroit Lions. Buffalo Bills. Over the Lions.

Number three. Then the Lions, then the Ravens, commanders, Rams, Vikings, Packers, Texans in your top 10 with the new offensive coordinator, Nick Caleb. One of those goofballs that have failed radio careers on their YouTube show is going to talk about if their 11th best team going in the next season. 10th? 10th. What do you mean? They're going to talk about breaking down the offense, defense, and not making their great sponsors?

Not going to the Super Bowl again? It could happen. Ross, I got terrible news. I made the prediction five years ago, and I feel great about it. What? The Texans aren't going to the Super Bowl ever. That's, stop. They're going to go to the Super Bowl at some point.

That's what Lions fans have been saying. Yeah, they got close. They got all those injuries. Lions would have gone. Lions are better, at their best, better than the Eagles. But it was close. I don't disagree. But injuries are part of the biz.

Absolutely. Attendance is part of the grade. I understand, Matt. All right, thank you. All right, let's keep moving on. Here's the thing. Here's why my statement doesn't hold any weight anymore. You're no reason God's on the screen, why?

Because they have made the right decisions. When I said McNair's were never going to leave the Texas Super Bowl was because they had horrific management and a horrific set of coaches. Yeah, you were wrong to do so. No, I was right to do so. I'm just telling you now the right coaches in place. Not still. No.

You got a mid-general manager. You just do. Who failed to address the offensive line, even at the, trade deadline. When they make the Super Bowl, you've got to get a Texan tattoo. No. It's part of the... Yeah.

No, I'll be a Texan. You know what? I'll change my Twitter account. You said you'll be a Texan fan. Yeah, I will. That's fine, but I've had enough to spare my life. I don't need it until they help make me make me happy. All right, Matt, we mentioned yesterday on the news at noon.

Aaron Rogers, not going to be a New York jet. The odds are out via Draft King's Sportsbook. Where is his next landing spot? Care to venture a guest? throw a dart at the board as some of the possible landing spots can I Aaron Rogers next season. I'm going to give you five teams

and I'm going and you I have to hit three of the top five is that fair? Sure, why not? Okay. Saints. Not in the top five. Tedding odds. So I'm all for one. That's okay. It's a good guest though. Oh, is this a backup or is a starter?

I would say judging by these landing spots it's It's harder. Okay. Short term. Seahawks. Not there, no. Damn.

They're sticking with Gino. All right. You strike two. I got one more strike. Because I was going to get you three to the five. I'm going to go Miami. No. Strike three.

What I miss. number two. Oh, okay. With Pete Carroll, sure. Forty-Niners, number three. I mean, he's from that area. Yeah, but they have not locked up Brock Pretty yet, right? I have not, I don't think. All right, I got you. Then the Vikings, which

would make sense if they get moved on from Sam Darnold. There's a backup to somebody for J.J. McCarthy insurance policy with his Achilles' issue. Okay. Colts, Rams, Titans, Giants, Browns. The Browns, but you're going to go, what are you going on the Browns for?

You're gonna, what, he finished his career four and 12? 14. From what, Phillip Rivers to Matt Ryan. Wasn't there another veteran, Carson Wants in there somewhere? Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco. Yeah. Chris Ballard loves the one-year deal, old quarterback.

So maybe you wonder. Better win or his ass is out. That's true. Yeah, Rams doesn't make sense. Titans, giants, I guess I could see. Okay. But there you go. Landing spots, possibly.

For one, Errant Rod. And another piece of news in the NFL rumor mill coming out, Matt? T. Higgins. Uh-oh. Yeah. Says he would love to stay with the Bengals. But... But it is not in his hands right now.

He told Fox 19 in Cincinnati. I've got to do what I need to do. If that's go to another team, then that's what happens. Are the Texans going to spend big money on it? T. Higgins only 26 years old. he's can you get him do the texans have money for him i don't think they have a ton of calves waste now but you can do some i think there's a lot of players they can restructure their contracts to make some breathing room okay then as you mentioned matt kellen moore

going to be hired as the head coach of the new orleans saints how we're feeling 36 years old if i had told you two years ago that keller more was a head coach of the new orleans saints people would be like, what? He re-invegarated his career by going to Feltauania. Yes, he did. In Saquan, partly, certainly helps a lot of that. He's been an offensive coordinator with the Cowboys, Chargers, then Eagles,

now at just 36 years old, the head coach of the New Orleans Saints. That's fine. Callan Moore. I mean, what are the Saints expecting? They've got no quarterback. What is the best thing the Saints have? They're in Cap Hell. They're like 50 million over the cap. They have draft picks at least, maybe? I don't know.

Things are looking pretty down over there. Let's get a Gordy Saints update. And I didn't even realize this. One more thing. Debo Samuel requested a trade from the Niners. Yet another veteran receiver. Maybe out there for somebody team to take that needs one. I like Debo.

When he's healthy. You know what the Texas needs a receiver? That's why I was a gut feeling Stefan Diggs. Can you go get in the first round and be good? Young, cheaper, not injury issues. Matthew Golden is thought of as the wide receiver won On most people's big Why?

He didn't like Houston What do you mean? He didn't not necessarily like Houston He just got paid off Why are you all bitter about it? He went to go play in the playoff He's fine Instead of duke in it out with rice

Should stay Why? Stay true to your commitments Well it sounds like he's probably not upset he's projected to be a first round pick. There's your NFL. Everyone. Number 27 on Dane Brugler's

Big Board. Okay. Matthew Golden. Or do you take the better alignment or better wide receiver at that spot? That'd be around where the Texans are picking, just saying, oh, actually he has, I'm sorry, a Mecca Egbuka, Ohio Statewide

receiver is ahead of Matthew Golden, at least on Dane Bruegler's board. I like him, too. He was usually one, two. Yeah, I like him too. Yeah. Wide receiver, round one, Texans. Go for it.

Need some speed. Need a stretch to feel a little bit. Neil and Tom Ball on 790. Neil, what was your wife doing during the Super Bowl? My wife, my daughter had to go out to Brenham for the day, so they weren't watching it. And I honestly had no desire to watch Casey. So me and my son went over to the gym and went rock climbing for a couple hours. You went rock climbing?

Yeah. How interesting is that? Was it busy? It actually was pretty busy because there's two of this location, and the other one was having a big kind of nation. wide competition so everybody over there was they all come over to the uh the spring version so oh you're right off i 45 right near the woodlands is that correct that's that's where that one is it's like right at lewetta and 45 oh yeah i know exactly that is huh yep so you went there did you think

there would be a crowd of people there did you go hey let's go on this sunday during the game and nobody will be there we'll have as much fun as we want to i thought it was going to be a little a little less busy than it was and uh yeah it was uh pretty packed actually so your wife and daughter went to Brenham and you went rock climbing with your son? Yes. And did you keep tabs of the game at all on your phone? About late in the game

I just kind of pulled it up and checked in and just saw that it was a blowout and then just forgot about it. So that was pretty much it. Wow. Okay. Very edged. Yeah, I watch every Texan's game throughout the season and some of the other games, but it just did not care at all about either of these teams.

Yeah, I mean, that's part of it. Thank you for the phone call. I am first of all, I appreciate the honesty. As I told you, Ross, even though I had a little bit of fatigue on the Kansas City side, I was going to watch the game. Yeah. If it was some two rando teams like, I don't know, the Cardinals and the dolphins I would have watched, it's the one event that you think everybody watches except Neil was.

See, the question is, I want to know what the share is. meaning the share is a percentage of televisions that were turned on. In some instance, if a share is percentages. So if a share of a particular television show is 57, that means 57% of televisions watching, what were the other 43% watching? Puppy Bowl. Now, in Neil's case, he's not part of the share because he just admitted he was not watching television at the time. You love this puppy bowl, but you brought this at multiple times today.

you pro puppy bowl sure I haven't seen it years not me either I should have got it going on the on the second TV what's the best halftime we ever didn't bevis and but had to do it half time one year

I think so whether you were supposed to flip over to mTV over the halftime right nobody tells people to do that anymore they're like you know what the halftime act is so popular now or it was or still is who knows

stay for that yeah I would not be a channel flipper because especially because the NFL's put so much money in time behind the halftime, whatever it's going to be next year, it's going to be probably a huge theatrical production. That's the last handful of been. My personal preference?

I'd bring back all the Rockers of the 70s. I think it should get Brooks and Dunn. No, Rockers of the 7th. They stopped, the reason they stopped doing that after. Now, after the... Give me Bob Seeger, Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, uh, give me the, put five or six great bands in one after the other. The 70 plus crowd will love it.

I'm sure. I don't just, you know what you're right? also not the target demo. Nope. After the Who was so old and terrible, that's what that was wretched. So they switched to a lot of the old Rock Axe when the whole Justin Timberlake slash what's her name, Janet Jackson thing happened. Then they went to the Rock Axe and then Who was so terrible.

They kind of switched back to more content. You know what? I need to put a late gut feeling in real quick. You ready? Yes. I'm going to write this down in the gut feelings? I remember I brought up a need to bring back country. that was an opinion, rock and roll.

I'm going to make this now a gut feeling. I got Clay Walker. That's my good. It's going to be a country Western performer. Okay. Maybe Jelly Roll takes care of a lot of groups. Is Jerry Roll Country Western? He's a little bit of both. Country Rock.

He's a little bit of a country and he's a little bit of rock and roll. He's also a Mandrell sister once. He wants once once once once. He got a sex change. Now he's not a longer mandrel sister. That's over the head of 98% of the population. All right, let me write this down. You're saying country acts.

I'm saying it's going to be a country act next year. I'll take the field. That's wrong. We're going on a limb there. 1248, Sports Talk, 790. 713-212-5-790. Matt Thomas continues on Sports Talk 7-19. Your rockets, your Astros, your voice.

I did something dirty to Conardee, and I apologize. I just happened to see in the 4U tab, A&M Basketball Radio was filming themselves, was calling the winning basket against Missouri over the weekend. Wade Taylor the 4th with a big game winner. And I sent it to him. You did? Just to say sorry for your loss. And he started recording.

He gets you that we're going to play on the show. Oh, man. See, he's out here being a good producer and you're just twisting knives, Matt. If I wanted you to record it, I would probably send it to your email. She really hates you. Yeah, that's why I was a little confused. So I went to Twitter, looked up to Texas A&M Basketball. Oh, here to go look at it, too.

I started recording. And I didn't even look at it until after the end. And I was like, oh, that's very. They beat buzzer beat her. Yeah. That was a good troll. No, that was effective. It worked.

Yeah, I troll because I care. That was good. I think busting of balls in college athletics is what you're supposed to do. I really enjoyed that. I don't believe that for a second. And I guarantee you, when I ask you to play a song, when the cougars, if the cougars lose at some point in the tournament, you'll be locked and loaded to play those highlights. Whether I did what I just did or not. Maybe I won it all.

Can I kind of hope for it and dream for it? I'd be sad. just because you'd be so happy. Actually, you're a really good Cougars fan, but I just always get to make my snide remarks about them being a basketball school and never winning a championship, and I'll just never be able to say that again. They are at basketball school, though.

Calvin Samson is running a great program, and to me, in my mind, they're a number one seed. I hope you're right. And RV's Bracketology, I got him as a won. Yeah, you know, I respect you way more than I do, Joe and Arnie. That's for sure. you. Yeah.

And it's funny because... I've also got the Longhorns as a three seed. I think I'm going to try to get coach on tomorrow, I think, as a plan. Oh, wonderful. We'll see if we can do that. I'm going to work on that now. But the point being is that we talked about this very early on the show. Franklin College football doesn't...

Like, I can't get an Aggie to cross over and get into a deep dive of a Texas football game. Mm-hmm. So if I can't get that done in front of. football, why would I expect anybody in basketball who wasn't a fan of University of Houston to come over to the dark side? Now, the TV stations in town, they run all over, they chase the team all across the country and we're live, we'll get the fan on the street, and we're outside this bar, and I mean, I saw that firsthand.

That's great. But they're doing it because they're looking to fill material for their five, six, and ten. They're not doing it because they've been following the cougars all year long. What do you mean? People love the cooks. people love the cougar fans love the coogs i don't know if the average joe loves the coogs i probably not i mean i i have unfortunately have said this uh a few times i think we're one of the five worst college basketball major cities in the country in comes of interest and a lot of it was because the cougars weren't any good now the cougars have you're trying to carry

one school's trying to carry an entire region of you know six million people i got a question for you if the cougars win it all yeah Does Calvin retire? I would say no. I would say he'd go Dusty Baker. If I get one, I want two. I think it's just so ingrained in his DNA to be a coach. He was born to coach.

He was born to coach. I think he's 66. I think he lives for it. I think that all of a sudden, when coaches at that age feel good about their lives and get up and exercise and somewhere to go, I don't sense any fatigue in him. But as I say that, though, Ross, he's got his son there. His daughter works there. He's got a, he has a contract that he will start taking once he retires as a consultant to the University of Houston basketball.

It's the last contract I saw of his. So it wouldn't like he'd be going away and hiding. He's got plenty of money. So the money that he would want to give to his kids and his grandkids, frankly, his son would inherit because he's the, he's the coach in waiting. winning the championship and then calling it a career. You know, honestly, I would say no because the recruiting class, and again, this is all into one person or two people's opinions, he's got a top 10 recruiting class in the nation coming back.

I think they're number two. I mean, it's something ridiculously high. So when you want to see that kind of play itself out? You finally catch it and cutting the checks over there, Maddie? Well, you know, I can do that. NIL money rolling in. Let's go. By the way, I still hate NIA.

I'm not going to change my mind about that. And they got three five-star commits? What the heck? Yeah. Wow. Straight cash, homie. Mm-hmm. You mean a great...

I mean, we can be naive and stupid and say it's because of the excellent academics and the great facilities, which they do have. I mean, basketball's been well taken care of them. They travel well and eat well. From Missouri, Utah, and then two from Texas. Yeah. But we're paying them. We've got to be paying them. I'm sure.

I mean, seriously, if you're a top... Ross, if you're a top 100 athlete, if you're not getting paid, you're not doing it right, right? Basically at this point? Yeah. Let's go. Get your money. And in some cases, get lots of money. Yeah.

Isn't like the number one recruit in the country going to BYU next year or something like that? I think so. They say like $10 million or $10 million? Some insane amount of money? I mean, you know. Duke's got four or five-star recruits? Dang. Cameron Boozer?

That's, yeah, they got there. He's got twins. Are they both going there or just one of them? Cameron and Caden, yeah. One is significantly better than the other. One is six foot nine. and one's six four. They're twins? Yeah.

Man, you imagine being the six four twin? Six four ain't a chop lever though. Yeah, but when your twin brother's six foot nine. Oh, he's been mad. And a five star? And what's the six four? The Cameron Boozer is the number one overall, I'm sorry, number three recruit nationally.

Caden is 24th. So not that far off. But there's probably some brotherly jealousy. Mm-hmm. Like a SAR and amend. Do you think they fought? a lot when they were kids. Aren't they about the same height?

About the same height. A Saar is a little heavier, but a men's a little more versatile. And was drafted first. One pick. One pick ahead of him. Oh, you take that to the bank. Oh, you bring that up at his funeral. At the grand... No, in the family reunion in 2046. Oh, you wouldn't believe this. When we played in the league, who was drafted first, granddad?

That was me. Yep. Absolutely. All right. Let's get to the final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Believe it or not, today, Ross, is... all things about the world champion Philadelphia Eagles, right? Yes. Okay.

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It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We have one hour left to go. 7-13-212-5-790. 713-212-5-790 if you want to chime in. We have believe it or not today coming up in about 45 minutes today. We have nothing in terms of nightly sporting events around here that make any big difference, right? Rockets don't play till tomorrow. By the way, everybody practiced today except Jabari Smith.

And this is according to Danielle Lerner, who covers the Rockets for The Chronicles. She was wonderful. Does that mean Freddie V was out there for a little bit? I don't know. I like that a lot. Although he's not expected back till after the All Starberg. There's two more games, yeah. So give him two more games, get him out there practicing.

Yes. I don't expect Alpi to play both games. Maybe, but it depends on how he was out there practicing. So it just how he feels when he gets up. I mean, what is it? Would he have like a hip spasm? Lumbar.

Where's the lumbar? Hip back? Lower back? Lower back? That's got to be painful. It's not fun. He was holding his lower back, went to the locker room, never came out of the locker. I mean, he was struggling just to run to half court after he suffered

the injury. Yeah. So, uh, they'll be back in action tomorrow against Phoenix. Again, if you're going to the game, it's a half hour starting landing. You know what? I'll say the same thing. Start seven o'clock. Get to get you there in time for, be a nice full crowd of hopefully before tip-time. Yeah. Yeah, don't tell anybody, Matt. By the way, did you see what Kevin Durant said about, um, there was a report by Ramona Shelburne of ESPN about how the locker room with the Phoenix sons was toxic. Yes. And I am going to,

I'm going to have to paraphrase. I don't know the exact tweet. Oh, did Kevin Durant? Well, he, no, he was, he didn't do a burner account or didn't do his own account. No, he doesn't, he doesn't do burners anymore. That's good. He got caught. He's smart. He's learned this lesson. So apparently, he heard about Ramona Schauburn said and said, well,

that first of all is bogus because Ramona Shelburne is never around our team. Secondly, if she was there, she came in during the media availability prior to the start of the game. And the NBA has this really dumb rule where you open up your locker room 45 to 50 minutes before the game for like a half an hour. I have never in my entire life gone in there ever before the game. The guys are completely tuned in. They're getting their bodies ready. They're getting their minds right.

They're thinking about the opponent. maybe they're eating, maybe they're closing their eyes for a few minutes. It's not a great opportunity to have a thoughtful conversation with an NBA player. Players will talk to you after practice. Players will talk to you after shoot-arounds, which is the game day practice several hours before tip time. And they will talk to you to a certain extent when the game is over. But that pre-game media availability, you're doing it just to make sure, I guess everybody shows up and is in there, but there's never anything done. So apparently that's when Ramona Shoehmann walked in and saw that the Phoenix Sons weren't singing kumbayas.

together. So she pulled a John Heyman. She pulled a 100% John Hamon and Kevin Durant called her on on it. Wow. And I don't always agree with Kevin Durant on some of the things he has said because I do believe he has quite a bit of a fragile ego. I love Kevin Durant. He wears his heart on his sleeve. He's a little thin-skinned. Well yeah. It happens. Probably should be thicker for a guy that's all that he's accomplished. But that's not the point. In this particular case, I completely agree with him. if you first of all if you're a reporter and you want to be a reporter slash expert slash insider you've got to go to more than just a rando 45 minute media availability before a game and consider yourself an expert you have to go to a practice you have to at least try to at some point build a relationship with those players and then if you go multiple times under a short period of time and everybody's cranking everybody's not getting along and people aren't talking then it feels like it's a better way to assess the overall

temperature of a particular locker room. This could be in all the sports. But she apparently went in once, because he even said, I haven't seen her once or four or four or five months. He called her out. Yeah. Is that what her report said? What about being in the locker room? Or did her maybe from sources? I don't know what her report was. A player could have said that the locker room in toxic score, coach or a staffer or whatever. Right. That's true. I didn't see the initial report. The interpretation I got was she said from what I've seen, and I'm not trying to put words in her mouth, but I think she's saying from what I've seen and heard, there's a lot of tension in that locker room.

And there probably is a lot of tension in that locker room. They're playing 500 basketball. They have two of the 25 biggest stars in the NBA right now with Devin Booker and Kevin Durant. They should be better. Noah fans are butts. But they're not. But they're not.

They're 500 basketball team. Hopefully they're going to be under them when the Rockets beat them tomorrow night. Let's go. I like that. But my point is I have Durant's back on this because unfortunately in the world of media and we have got a lot of that here we have a lot of people in this town that think they're insiders

and they're not and when I hear that kind of stuff about whether it's the rockets or any other teams that I happen to cover I go I didn't see you here I didn't see you to hear so that's how the whole Heyman thing a couple of years ago still irritates me because we saw that first hand Ross you saw him dip in dip out

and he all of a sudden cold everything it was a very surly there's no smiling nobody's smiling of course they're not smiling and 7.50 in the morning they're putting their close on. They don't, nobody wants to smile at 715. So ridiculous. But nobody checks him on that. And Kevin Durant checked Ramona Shelburne. Good for him.

Yeah, there was some kind of checking at John Heyman a little bit, but it was more people beating around the bush or maybe Corray or somebody said something though. Yeah. I can't remember. Yeah. I remember Brian McTagger posting pictures of players smiling and like, look, I see some smiles. Yeah. I mean, the reality is this. you all are smart enough to realize who to trust in this town. I'm in the memory of phrase.

I want you to be smarter. If you're a Texans fan, John Alexander with the team every single day. That's all I really know. There could be others, but that's all I, oh, Aaron Wilson.

Aaron's around the team all the time. Yeah. Those two dudes. DJ B enemy is, I don't really know him, but I don't really, I don't know. It's about being there every day.

I think he's there. I don't know. Okay, so I don't know. I never met the guy, so I don't know what he looks like. I never heard him. Okay, baseball, it's McTaggart, it's Channel Rome, and the Chronicle guy, who I don't really know it all.

Kawamura, is that right I say? Matt Kawahara. Yeah, I like Matt. He's a nice guy. Yeah, I don't really know him. Yeah, real quiet, but he's there every day. Good rider, he's every day. Basketball, Danielle Loner is there every single day for the Rockets. You know, Fagan retired, so Danielle took over the beat.

She's there every single day. So, I mean, that pretty much nails of who you need to follow. These other wannabes, they're doing it because they're trying to get their own fame and fortune. Covering the Texans? I guess. Okay. I would just say this, be selective of who you trust. Thank you, Matt.

And then Ramona Shelburne, off the trust list is what you're saying. Yeah, I think so. I think she's too busy being best friends with Jeannie Bus. That's the word on the streets. Okay. That she's never going to take any sort of jabs of the Lakers because she has a friendship with Jeannie Bus. And by the way, I heard this other day. You know, Dan Orlovsky may be leaving ESPN.

To go where? Either another broadcasting job or to go coach. Okay. I think he does a good job. I like him. Guest of the show. Was he good with you guys? It was great.

The problem is he's overworked. He's on every show. Yeah. When he's on baseball time, I'm like, give Dan a break. When he's on NASCAR this week, give Dan a break. It's true. NHL tonight. Seriously, I don't, if,

Dan's, he said the other day, I'm taking a break for a long time. Good for you. Go away. He needs some time away. His family probably hadn't seen him in months. Yeah, I mean, that whole network is basically four people. Kendrick Perkins, Ryan Clark, Dan Arloffsky, and Stephen A. Everybody else, I'd see like once or twice. Those guys are on every their show. Who? Cam Newton. He's getting there up there. Mike Greenberg. Oh, Greenberg. Your guy, Greenie. 713-212.

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7-13-212-5-790. The Astros have been kicked off one list. I'll tell you what list is next. It's 114 on Sports Talk 790. More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790. Real quick, Buster only has said that it's down to three teams. for the Alex Breggman sweepstakes, or

is it really Alex Breggman's signing? I wouldn't call it a sweepstakes because you're battling for that, right? Maybe it's three offers are sitting right in front of Bregman and Scott Borris and are like, all right, which one do you want? Let's just do like a shell game, round robin. What are they waiting for? Yeah, it's the Red Sox, it's the Cubs and the Tigers. The Astros apparently

according to Buster only have been kicked off of that list. Really? Well, Jeff Passon in his free agent update today. Oh, I like this. Yes. Still listed the Astros. And did you mention, okay, who are the three teams you had? Cubs, Red Sox, Tigers. Okay, he also still mentioned the Blue Jays.

Hmm. So maybe it's just who, depending, who's giving you, I don't think either one of them are guessing. I think there's probably different camps giving out different parts of information. I think goes on to mention good reasons why none of these teams would do it. So what are we waiting for? I'm sticking with my gut feeling, most recent gut feeling. You're saying, I mean short term opt out of year.

Yes, which is always the way that. It would go under a long-term deal. Yeah. And by the way, again, I know there is fatigue on this. I get it, so we're going to move on. But it does not overshadow the awesomeness that Alex Brigham brought to the city for a long period of time. No. So no matter how weird this has gotten and how much maybe somebody has overvalued his worth

or maybe the agent is overvalued his client's worth, it doesn't diminish what he brought to this franchise. This is being the greatest third baseman ever to play for this team. We'll be a surefire Astros Hall of Honor or Hall of Fame. He'll get the orange jacket. He'll get the orange jacket. Classes have been getting a little lean. They better slow down. Pretty soon I'll be getting in there.

I think you and Junction Jack are going to be enshrined together. I believe so, yes. When Vern Rule is being brought up as a possibility. No disrespect to Vern, but it seems like a little disrespect. All right. Speaking of fatigue. hopefully you're not tired of the show. We want you here every day for four hours.

I'm not. I'm feeling great and feeling alive. Oh, you look amazing. Thank you very much. 713212-5-790. There will be a on-court MC for the All-Star game. NBA All-Star game. On-court MC, like during the whole game?

Yep. Like the and-one mixtape tour? I don't know what that means, but context tells me yes. Okay. So he was a guy, so when the AN1 mixtape was happening, there was a guy in the floor going, oh, hey, yo, the professor, oh my goodness.

Half man, half amazing. So Connor? Every time there was a play made, they would scream. We're going to get Connor involved in this. We're going to do it back and forth of you guys, and you're going to have to figure out who it is. Don't look at Twitter, by the way, for the next couple of minutes. Kendrick Lamar.

Okay, so you get to ask me questions, and after each question, I'll give you the answer. It's like 20 questions? Sort of like yes or no. Let's do this. And I want to see if you guys can figure it out. Ice cube. Don't know. Don't name the person. Just get questions and then after you ask a question, you can then give a name.

Is this per, okay. So, Ross, since Connor's the horror working of the three of us, Connor, you can get the first question in it or you can give it to Ross. What do you want to do? I'm going to take the first question. What is your question, please? Is this person a comedian? Yes. Oh!

So give the answer then. Your answer is? Kevin Hart. You must have thought on Twitter. No, I swear I did it. Oh, my God, he got it right. Once you said comedian, my first thought was. Kevin Hart for sure.

It's too easy. He's been in all the celebrity, All-Star Games. He doesn't say no to anything. Yeah. He's got to have a nice net worth. He's been in like 57 movies where he plays the same character.

I was hoping this bit was going to go to the bottom of the hour at least. Now, I'll say this. Kevin Hart was really funny at the Tom Brady Roast. Frankly, everybody was funny except for who was the one?

Ben Affleck was horrific. but I've never seen a Kevin Hart movie. I haven't seen SoulPlane? No. I don't really, I've never seen one of his stand-up acts. I've just seen him as roast and just basically never turning down anything. He was in the 40-year-old virgin. You saw that, right? I did see that. What did he play? He was the guy arguing with the other black guy in the video store.

Okay. That's. He's looking for a discount. It's been a long time. Point being is this, in the category of I just don't get it? I don't get Kevin Hart. You don't get it? He's funny. Have you ever seen any of his stand-up?

No. It's solid. It's like I said, seven out of ten stuff, six out of ten. I thought he was really funny at the Brady Roast. So I'm not saying that I'm completely anti-him, but it's just like that's what they went for. I hate to say this, the low-hanging fruit. Oh, you're making short jokes, as he hasn't heard it. Yeah, he's in the Jumanji movies.

I think I watched the first one. He's doing quite. well for himself. Celebrity net worth, Matt, guess. Oh, what's my range? You're a zero to a billion. That's not a range. What's not a range? What's my plus? What do you mean? He's been in a bunch of millions. I'll give you within $30 million. Oh my God.

It means he's really rich. Career started to win. I don't know. The last 20 years? Yeah. Kevin Hart is worth $164 million. $450 million. Oh, my God. Says Celebrity net worth.

What's his height? I don't know. Was he altouva-sized? 5-4? This says it's a cure, a subject of curiosity. Sources listening to anywhere between 5-2 and 5-5. Okay, so let's put him at 5-4. He has said that I'm 5-5 with a shoe on, like a sneaker.

When you say that, that means you're not really that what you are. Probably 5-4. Shoe adds about an inch. So, Ross, if I gave you $450 million and added to your net worth, you'd have to drop an entire foot. Let's do it. That's it me too. Short Kings mount up. Let's go.

My guess he's not hurting for anything in his life. Yeah, he's doing all right. Despite the small stature. So a guy who doesn't turn down any television show or movie or special or comedy act or anything can get you nearly $500 million. I mean, I think he's pretty funny. I just don't think he's like all-time funny. He's naturally funny guy. Yeah, I mean, I looked at him and thought,

He's got good lines. But do I want to hear two hours of him? Probably not. That feels like a little like Seth. Do you think that would turn the microphone off? Yeah, they should do like maybe two people or one guy, maybe four people for a quarter each. Or how about let Kevin Harlan do it like he's supposed to do it? Well, aren't they doing, so aren't they do splitting into three or four teams and they're going to play each other?

How many teams is it? There's three teams. Okay. Why is there only three? They're doing round robins? I guess. And like the team that Outbrin-Chungungo is on has four centers on it. And Nicolaeok is one of them.

So we're going mega-large. Well, Charles Barkley found that team. Okay. It's this Sunday. I'm in the air. I'm in the air. No, I'm actually watching volleyball. I'm not going to watch it. Are you okay?

If it's on, and I remember it's on, I'll check it out. I don't care. Yeah, I think if I was the national sports president, you know, of the sports, I would get rid of all All-Star Games. They just doing, they, they, they, they, granted, they're all making money. They're all tied into bonuses for these players. All of television networks, all have got sponsors. Hell, that damn tug of war had 40,000 people, I guess,

in Orlando for that. See, people love it. Maybe I don't. No, I'm in the minority. I get it. No, you're in the majority. Most people did not watch the pro bowl games. I didn't even watch it. I meant to. Yeah. I forgot. When I was, when I got to the hotel and it said, coming up next after this flag football game, Tug of War, I'm thinking, you're playing your ass off for 17 weeks for the chance

to go to Orlando being a tug of war. The accomplishment didn't fit the reward. They gotta stop that tug of war. Somebody's gonna get hurt. You ever done tug of war? Yeah, in third grade. Yeah, I mean, I don't think I've dug to war. Dominant force.

In 42 years? 43, 44 years? Yeah, it was a little red rover, a little four square, and then a little tug war. Let me ask you this. On the tug of war battle. Yes. Do you want to be on the back end or the front end? I think you want your strongest in the back.

Well, who has to do the less amount of work? That's where I want to go. Probably the middle. You just fake it. Yeah, because if you're in the front and you slide into whatever the slop is, you're going to be embarrassed. Yeah, you're going to be,

you don't want to be the first one out. You're going to lose them to tug-of-war. It's getting in the middle. Fain interest. The Matt Thomas Show, 10 to 2. I'm serious. When was the last time you tugged a war? I don't know.

I don't want to hear about anything in tugging with you. 7-13-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-1-2-5-70. That's just a lost art. You had grown-ass men making $30 million a year in a tug-war in Orlando in a middle of a pack stadium. Yeah, they're all having a good. time. Why are you so angry about it?

Not angry about it. It just seems like you are. I'm a little bit irritated. 713, 212, 5, 790. Believe it or not coming up at 20 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Apparently my friends are quite amused by the green light offer being available to you. We don't know that guy, but he's a great advertiser of sports talk.

790. We love him. Do we not, Ross? We love the green light order. Love it. Can't get enough of him. We can one day, when it's all sent down our careers are done, Ross, we can do a commercial off. We can, like, do a bracket for the best commercial ever. Or worse. Shortlist. Cars for kids. Mr. Morrell's doing quite a run lately.

I know my favorite of all time. Which is? Doug Pike doing his Cajun accent. Oh, aye. Aee. You love Doug Pike. Friend of the show. Absolutely.

Most of his station. We used to get a Doug where a pipe report. When this show first began in 2010, we used to do the Doug Pike Report. Let's do it. We got four hours of Phil. How's the surf looking this weekend? You don't get a surf report? Best thing about Doug is all of his advertisers don't live in the city of Houston.

You go to Needville, done. You go to Brenham? Brenham, check. You need something done in New Waverly? Doug Pikes got you covered. Love it. Beaumont, done. Listen to the Doug Pike show.

You know what I start calling Doug Mr. Southeast Texas? That man puts a lot of miles off. I mean, he's grinding out there, Matt. Yeah. Imagine not having a weekend for 20 years or however long he's been doing the show. He gets like Mondays off. I mean, that's terrible. I feel for y'all that have to work Saturdays and Sundays.

It happens. Yeah. It happened to me for many years. I listened to Dan Matthews Saturday and Sunday on the Rocks. I had to give up the sports RV show. Get my weekends back. Nobody really misses it. That's not true. I get people all the time talking about it, and I appreciate you people.

I was supposed to bring misconnections of this show, but we never did. You want to do it? You can only do it like once every couple of months. The problem is we don't have enough stuff, right? Yeah, it's not, kind of got shut down. Let me ask you this. If we get misconnected, we got to, there's got to be somewhere else we can find them that are more plentiful. It was like the Supreme Court ruled that Craigslist had to get rid of.

of uh pornography well no they had to get rid of these the personals because too many people were getting like they would meet up with somebody and they would get robbed or oh that's terrible yeah but let me ask you this let's say that i go to a call uh not say me let's go to one of our listeners let's go who's one of our let's our friend david in vegas what about it and david and Vegas is a single guy is he and he yeah okay and he finds that special someone at a casino, but he never sees her again. How is he supposed to find her?

You're supposed to go to Miss Connections. They have it, it's back. It's just not under personals. It's in community. Okay. For example, there's one posted over the weekend. Papado, I'm sorry, Mopamo. Hold on, hold on.

We're going to do this real quick. You're going to have music. No, it's fine. You seem interested in me next to your table. I was also distracted by your beauty. If you read this, you know who you're going to do. are. I'd love to meet you. But what's the chances that those people reaching on to each other? That's why we

broadcast it on the air. We need to put this on 740, greater reach. 50,000 watts. Yeah. Well, they're going to be mad that Sean Hannity's off. Could you imagine us interrupting the Michael Barry show for an hour of misconnections? How much hate mail would we get? Oh, my God. Unbelievable. It's like when the rockets get played over there on KTRH sometimes at night. Ooh. Oh, grumpy people. Very upset. They want to talk about the planet Naburu rather than

talking about the rocket's latest. lost, loss. Which hopefully is a win. Coming up tomorrow night. Right here on 790, but we put 95% of games on 790, so just to keep everybody sane.

Well, the Astros are coming up soon. If it's not one, it'll be the other. And there will be playoff games. Ooh. I'm liking it. I'm loving it.

Hopefully not play end games. I'll be much. There'll be a certain level of angst, Ross, from me, if they drop all the way to 7, 8,992. If they finish six, will you call this the season of failure? No.

It's kind of a disappointment from when they were in second. Not a failure. Not a failure. No. A disappointment. No, because if you take the original expectation, we had them 7, 8, 9, 10. If you get to 6, it's exceeding expectations. But everybody, you know, we got to keep that same energy that everybody did for the Texans. Everybody was all upset that the Texans went 10 and 7 in one of the division.

Even though they hit their over. By the front of the show, Wade, there's an attorney that used to be on the show. as well. Advertising. Eric. Oh, is that guy? Okay. He's still doing his thing.

Yeah. Those are certainly memorable. Oh, yeah. Quite memorable. A lot of puns. Yeah. So, to your point.

So you're saying that once the energy was there for home court, anything less than a home court is a disappointment. If you're saying that, I have to respect that. That's kind of what I'm feeling right now. Fifth wouldn't be that bad. But six, at least you could just beat whoever the third seat is, Grizzlies. So let me go through the schedule the rest of the way, and this is a very brief run down here. Okay.

You have two Laker games in L.A., a clipper game in L.A. still. You have two with Golden State, one in Houston and one in San Francisco. You have three with Phoenix still to play. We've seen put the Sunjet this year. One more with Minnesota. I'm just one more at Dallas Your Eastern Games left on the road Orlando, Miami, and Indianapolis

You just know the whole schedule Well, because my life is based on this Peach Basket You have one more trip to Oklahoma City Yes It's tough They're gonna be fine Just get to the All Star break

Get everybody rested and ready to go Sounds like things are turning in the right direction With everyone practicing today Except for Jabari Smith Jr. Continues to have a broken hand The question's going to be what the rockets are going to do with Jabari once he's able to return. I believe that Amend Thompson is not leaving the starting lineup. My gut tells me that Jabari is a bench player, that he would not take over for Dylan Brooks.

I think Dylan's three-point percentage of sugar, which, by the way, is tops in the team. It's about 38% I want to say, Rossi? Give her take a little bit on that? I can look that up. I'm going to guess you're right. Let me ask you this because you know the league a little bit better in terms of percentages. If 38 your best, does that mean that it's not good for your best? I mean, does your best have to be 40%?

That's fine for your best as long as you got a couple guys close. Nobody else is close. It's not great. Yeah, Fred's not close. Jalen's not close. Although Jalen's got a little bit better. He's back around 35, 34%. Let's see.

Three point percentage. See, the thing of it is is that you don't, Dylan doesn't shoot the violence. of threes like the other guys I just brought up. Jack Landale's shooting 50% for the year. But yes, it's 385 for Dylan. Next best is 35% below league. You got one guy

above league average. Well, it's not good. Yeah, starting five for me, when Jabari comes back at the starting five that's going now, provided when they're healthy. That's Fred and Jalen in the back court, a man at the center spot, a men and Dylan with the forwards.

You mean Alperin at the center spot? For instance, right, yeah. With Jabari, Whitmore, Eason coming off the bench. The Eason's going to be guns. Adams. Huh? Adam's.

Adams is not going to play a lot of back-to-backs, which means Joclandale will play in that spot. I don't expect Terry Easton to be playing a lot of back-to-backs the rest of the season, which means... I don't think one. Yeah. Which means more, Cam Whitmore probably. Reed Shepard.

Reed Shepard's going to try to get in the mix somehow. He's got to hit the three-point shot. I mean, that's what he's. brought here. 26% not great. And I don't want to, and honestly people have said to me,

hey Matt, should he go back to the G league? There's nothing else he can do down there. He's too good for the G. He goes to the G league and he puts up 46. I mean, it's like sending Camden with the G league. It's just wanting to do it again.

It's like sending John Singleton into AAA. He's just going to mash. Yeah. Now, Shepherd's career has not been defined at this point. No, that's true. The Singleton's career has been defined. Well, yeah.

Well, yeah. I mean, good work to get back to where he once, once was. but John Singleton's not. There was a reason why they went and got Christian Walker. They said, we just cannot live with about a 230 batting average and a slug of about, or OPS of about 675 at first base.

And Christian Walker isn't going to do that. Plus his glove is spectacular as compared to Johns, who is respectable, but nothing close to what. I mean, the reason why John Singleton to play last year was because Jose Abraeu was a utter failure. If Abraeu plays like an average first base, but with average power, an average hitting, an average fielding, John Singleton isn't on this baseball team.

So isn't it strange that John Singleton's career was able to continue based off of the futility of another player. It happens sometimes. Yeah, it does happen a lot. He was better than the guy in front of him. You certainly was. Any year in the time. All right, 143, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

We have, believe it or not today, the category of all things about members of the Philadelphia Eagles, your Super Bowl champions. If you'd like to play, 713, 212, 5, 790. What are we playing for today? The prize vault, it's got to be, we had a couple winners yesterday, but the prize vault's going to have lots of good stuff in it because we've got a full staff here today. Yeah, we got tickets to Marty Grod Galveston and then tickets to Brooks and Dunn at the Houston Rodeo. Oh, we're stuck on Brooks and Dunn tickets.

Oh, yeah. You like My Maria Ross or do you like Bootscook Boots Boots Boots Boogie? Come back with my Maria so we can let. Leon Moon is the, to me, like a top five country song of all time. No. Yeah. No, it's not. No, it's not what's not what's up.

Come on me, bro. What's up? No, I'm coming out of you right now. Neil Moon is not a top five country song of all time. That's ridiculous. Yes, it is. My Maria will come back with that. 144 on 790.

It's Matt, and he's back. The Matt Thomas Show on 790. Houston's home for Houston teams. We're playing this song because Ross is having a coughing fit, and like I'm not going to make fun of you because I've had coughing fits myself, so it's nothing new. Poor kid. You've had this thing attached to you forever.

I just got a text from a friend of the show. I'll protect his name. He's like, Neon Moon. Top 5 country song. Are you kidding? I love it. It's a good song. It's a top 5.

I would fully admit I'm not deep in the country game. Clearly by you saying that. People understand that now. I think it's a jam. It gets people going. Maybe like me saying a bald-headed H-O was one of the top five hip-hop songs. of all time. It could be. It's your opinion, Matt. No. I don't think. I think

if I called Bumby and said, how do you put ball-headed hoe in there and he would not say it's on top five? I don't think the two match at all. What I talked about was a major country hit. What you're talking about is a, yeah, it's way off base. It's another bad analogy from you. Neon-moon. How did it write on the records?

Rolling Stone has it as the number 41 country song of all time. Is ball-headed hoe the number 41- song of all the time? No, so you're way off base. Oh, this is the remake with Morgan Wallen. Waylon? Wallen? I don't know.

Yeah. Oh, look. I have it in the top five. You were 36 off. Rolling Stone put it 41. People don't all time. People don't respect Rolling Stone. I've already been told about this by numerous people. So it can't be that crazy if they have a top 41 all time and I put in the top five. Rolling Stone, a magazine is talking about rock and roll.

Sorry, they don't get a vote. I don't go to pizza and ask him where the greatest chicken. sandwiches of all time. They have it in the top 41, so I wasn't that crazy. Suck it. This is not the Neon Moon we're talking about, though. No. It's a good song. I'm not going to argue with you. Neon Moon's a good song. That's fine.

Top 40, salt. Rolling some of their head from their ass. They don't. You don't have it in the best 100? This version sucks. This is a terrible version. I mean, it's just too big of a genre.

There's no way we can narrow it down. I couldn't narrow it on the best song. Rolling Stone did. Well, they're losers. Just because they disagree with you? No, because... If they didn't have it in the top 100, you'd be talking about how it was?

I put a tweet out that there was a video on Facebook. Top 10 worst songs of the 80s and everybody's like, I don't give Rolling Stone any cretons. They don't know what the hell they're talking about. Every single person said that? Yeah. Go look at my tweet. Every single person that saw the tweet.

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